I finally bought a hot tub - Dimension one Latitude. I love it but the chemistry is frustrating. The tub came with the ease floating system for sanitizing. I also bought the TFP test kit. The frog ease test strips do not record the same as the TFP test kit. Why is that?
Frog Ease floating system
- Thread starter Farmgal
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 53,268
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
We call test strips guess strips. They are worthless. Toss them in the trash and don't let them confuse you.
The Frog ease floating system for sanitizing is not something that TFP would recommend. It is a combination of chlorine and what they call "minerals".
TFP does not and will not endorse or promote the use of “mineral” based alternative satnizers because by all peer reviewed literature they are not a sanitizer. While they do kill some of the organisms we want eliminated from pool water they do it much too slowly to protect swimmers from person to person transmission of these microorganisms. Here is an excerpt from the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (body having jurisdiction over swimming and spa pool sanitisers in Austrailia). I have added my emphasis to three parts:
If you research the “papers” supporting mineral use you will find that they are written/published by organizations that have a financial interest in selling the systems or are "alternative health" literature.
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TFP does not and will not endorse or promote the use of “mineral” based alternative satnizers because by all peer reviewed literature they are not a sanitizer. While they do kill some of the organisms we want eliminated from pool water they do it much too slowly to protect swimmers from person to person transmission of these microorganisms. Here is an excerpt from the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (body having jurisdiction over swimming and spa pool sanitisers in Austrailia). I have added my emphasis to three parts:
If you research the “papers” supporting mineral use you will find that they are written/published by organizations that have a financial interest in selling the systems or are "alternative health" literature.
How do I use Chlorine in my Spa (or pool)?
If you have a question about any information within this Sticky, please start a new thread for yourself where you will receive very quick responses to your specific questions. Thank you! Introduction There are two main things to consider when maintaining your hot tub water, Water Balance and...
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Thank you! I understand much more now. Eventually I'll make the switch. When the store delivered and set up my tub they added the @ ease chemicals and floaty. I had no idea what the system was and have been learning ever since.The Frog ease floating system for sanitizing is not something that TFP would recommend. It is a combination of chlorine and what they call "minerals".
TFP does not and will not endorse or promote the use of “mineral” based alternative satnizers because by all peer reviewed literature they are not a sanitizer. While they do kill some of the organisms we want eliminated from pool water they do it much too slowly to protect swimmers from person to person transmission of these microorganisms. Here is an excerpt from the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (body having jurisdiction over swimming and spa pool sanitisers in Austrailia). I have added my emphasis to three parts:
If you research the “papers” supporting mineral use you will find that they are written/published by organizations that have a financial interest in selling the systems or are "alternative health" literature.
How do I use Chlorine in my Spa (or pool)?
If you have a question about any information within this Sticky, please start a new thread for yourself where you will receive very quick responses to your specific questions. Thank you! Introduction There are two main things to consider when maintaining your hot tub water, Water Balance and...
Interestingly, I’ve compared the Leisure Time strips to my Taylor test kit and they agree pretty well.
- May 3, 2014
- 58,691
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Welcome to the forum.
Great. Use them if you like. The forum will not provide guidance based on test strip or pool store data.
Take care.
The frog system uses chlorine, but it is not "regular" chlorine. It is special, slow release chlorine - pretty much the same stuff as those "bleach tabs" you put in your toilet tank.
That kind of chlorine does not work with "normal" pool test kits - it only works with the Frog test strips. Most importantly, the frog system will cause a "normal" pool test kit to show abnormally high levels of combined chloramines.
That kind of chlorine does not work with "normal" pool test kits - it only works with the Frog test strips. Most importantly, the frog system will cause a "normal" pool test kit to show abnormally high levels of combined chloramines.
Oh, wasn’t expecting it to. Not advocating them as a replacement for a real test kit either. They can be a handy “spot check” though, if you’ve validated that they’re close.