So my husband had the genius idea to empty our warm spa water into our pool last night. The spa is bromine, the pool is chlorine. I didn’t realize the mistake until the middle of the night. The spa water was pretty well balanced but probably needed some non chlorine shock added at the time. I haven’t added Any chemicals or tested the pool yet this morning because I didn’t want to add to our mistake and I wasn’t sure our reading would be correct since we mixed everything. So what should I do from here? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Added bromine spa water to chlorine pool, help!
- Thread starter Veysma
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How big is the spa and how big is your pool? Did you have a good bromide base in the water?
The spa is roughly 350 gallons and the pool is 13,500 gallons. My husband said he added a floater with bromine pucks in about 2 weeks ago and it was empty last night. He’s slacked a bit on the spa since we were working on re-opening the pool. He said he just did a quit dip strip test a few day’s ago (aqua check brand for bromine) and ph/alkalinity were “ideal” and total bromine showed 0. I do know bromine can just hang in the water until MPS is added so I’m not sure what our reserve was.
You probably added less than 1 ppm bromide to your pool, so it should be fine. Wouldn't do that again though, bromide in a chlorine pool can cause all sorts of unwanted and long lasting side effects.
Thank you! And yea, he’s off water duty for a little while after this little fiasco. We’ve had quite a bit of sun recently and had some kids over yesterday, would it be okay to add chlorine to my pool today if it’s needed?