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    Exact nature of harm from sodium bromide algaecides

    “you're pushing conspiracy theories” You think google altering search results to benefit advertisers is a conspiracy theory? No wonder you’re claiming the lifespan of sodium bromide is eternal. You just have some crazy notions. The funny thing about you complaining about me responding to an old...
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    Exact nature of harm from sodium bromide algaecides

    What’s the problem with that? Your sample size is zero.
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    Exact nature of harm from sodium bromide algaecides

    Yes, I do. Which is better, actual experience or an abstract theory that you have never tested and which is missing the most important piece of data need to come to the conclusion of that theory? You don’t know how fast bromide degrades to bromate so you can’t say whether bromide as an algaecide...
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    Exact nature of harm from sodium bromide algaecides

    I have no idea what the rate is and there is no way I’d be able to describe the mechanism for conversion. I only know that within 2 days the bromine had stopped burning chlorine in my pool, and I used it in the amount directed- 4 oz per 10000 gallons, which was about .06 ppm.
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    Exact nature of harm from sodium bromide algaecides

    “The pool will now be a brominated swimming pool.” For how long? That is the point where your explanation fails. You don’t consider the rate at which bromine/bromide degrades to bromate. And since you don’t consider that, you also don’t consider the factors related to that rate. Sodium bromide...
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    Exact nature of harm from sodium bromide algaecides

    “Someone stated that applying any bromine to a chlorine pool turns it into a bromine pool where any future addition of chlorine gets turned to bromine. This makes no sense to me.” Me either, that’s why I used yellowtrine after reading a bunch of people making dire warnings like “once you put...
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    What should the sand filter gpm be for a 70 gpm pump?

    I have a Hayward 1.5 hp pump with a flow rate of 70 gpm and a doheny sand filter with a flow rate of 50 gpm. I’ve read a bunch of people say the flow rate of the filter should exceed the pump, so I looked into my filter to see which pump they sell with it and found out that it’s the same Hayward...
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    Do I need to SLAM?

    The pool store always wants to sell you stuff you don’t need. Like selling flocculant because the water is cloudy when you need chlorine. Or selling you phosphate remover when you need chlorine, or selling you algeacide when you need chlorine. . .