Bromination: Brilliance Brominating Granules vs. Brilliance for Spa Sanitizer

[Leonian]

I have been using Brilliance for Spa Sanitizer for my spa. I used to purchase it in 1.5lb orange containers and place it in my spa’s Brilliance floater (photo attached). Once a week I would do spa chemistries and make any needed adjustments.

Now I can’t seem to find the product. In its place at my local pool store is Brilliance Brominating Granules in a 1.75 lb container (photo attached) with the same shape and color as the Spa Sanitizer. The pool store personnel tell me it’s the same thing. It's not. The chemical in the Spa Sanitizer was a brominated dimethylhydantoin. The Brominating Granules contain Sodium dicholro-s-triazinetrione + Sodium bromide. One thing that surely is different between these two products is their solubility. The Spa Sanitizer went into a floater and slowly dissolved. The Brominating Granules dissolve quickly.

Can anyone further enlighten me as to what happened?


Has Brilliance for Spa Sanitizer been taken off the market (and, if so, why)?

Are the Brominating Granules a better way to keep my spa in tip-top shape? I am concerned without a floater in the hot tub, that I will need to be adding this quick dissolving preparation more frequently than my previous weekly check on things.

Would it make sense for me to search out for bromine tabs that might fit in my floater?


Thanks for your insight.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

I Googled to see who is selling the product-

Hot Tub Supplies - Chemicals - Brilliance for Spas - National Discount Pool Supplies, LLC

Brilliance for Spas Floater Replacement Screen.

www.nationaldiscountpoolsupplies.com

Maybe just buying online would solve your problem obtaining it?

Maddie

 

[Leonian]

Maddie,

Thanks so much for your reply and for the link to a potential vendor.
It appears that even the company you pointed me to no longer sells the product. I found a photo of what I used to use and attached it to this message.
I now believe this particular product is no longer on the market and wonder why.

I do see bromine tabs are available to purchase. I'll investigate that route.

Kind Regards.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

Maybe its time to switch to chlorine in the hot tub?

I stopped using Brilliance about 7 years ago thinking I didn't want the bromine traveling to the pool on bathing suits when the kids go from hot tub to pool and back again.
Gotta keep bromine outta a chlorine pool. I don't know how much it takes but enough bromine in a pool makes it a bromine pool and not a chlorine pool.

Maddie