Hi PoolGeniuses,
Religious follower of the TFP methods here. I test at home almost daily with Taylor Kit. I maintain my Chlorine levels per TFP chart (where is the old chart? I liked being able to see the whole table - the updated page is too fancy for me). Every so often, I go into Leslie's to buy chemicals and at the same time I have the water tested to compare their results to my own. They always tell me my phosphates are high, and I always ignore their recommendations to treat.
I have always had high phosphates (lots of landscaping around pool, etc.), but as expected they got even higher after I did a couple Metal Magic treatments last season (I have small amounts of Iron that I try to sequester to prevent stains). The phosphates are now reading 4000-6000 on pool store tests (I don't have the Taylor test for this).
I am thinking about treating the phosphates just to get them down to a more reasonable baseline, and to shut up the people at Leslie's. I will likely do a preventative MM dose at some point which I know will increase phosphates again. Questions...
1.) Should I bother to treat them? I have never had an algae issue, and I maintain proper TFP Chlorine levels. But still... 6000ppm seems like a lot.
2.) Best method to treat them? Any experience with SeaKlear Phosphate Remover? (No thank you to the 5+ gallons of Leslies diluted product that I would need)
3.) Do I need a clarifier if I use SeaKlear? Or can I just wait for the filter to clear it? I will start with a small dose and see how quickly it clogs up the filter. I have a cartridge filter so it will be a giant pain to remove this much phosphate... which is why I have avoided doing it thus far.
Thanks!!
Religious follower of the TFP methods here. I test at home almost daily with Taylor Kit. I maintain my Chlorine levels per TFP chart (where is the old chart? I liked being able to see the whole table - the updated page is too fancy for me). Every so often, I go into Leslie's to buy chemicals and at the same time I have the water tested to compare their results to my own. They always tell me my phosphates are high, and I always ignore their recommendations to treat.
I have always had high phosphates (lots of landscaping around pool, etc.), but as expected they got even higher after I did a couple Metal Magic treatments last season (I have small amounts of Iron that I try to sequester to prevent stains). The phosphates are now reading 4000-6000 on pool store tests (I don't have the Taylor test for this).
I am thinking about treating the phosphates just to get them down to a more reasonable baseline, and to shut up the people at Leslie's. I will likely do a preventative MM dose at some point which I know will increase phosphates again. Questions...
1.) Should I bother to treat them? I have never had an algae issue, and I maintain proper TFP Chlorine levels. But still... 6000ppm seems like a lot.
2.) Best method to treat them? Any experience with SeaKlear Phosphate Remover? (No thank you to the 5+ gallons of Leslies diluted product that I would need)
3.) Do I need a clarifier if I use SeaKlear? Or can I just wait for the filter to clear it? I will start with a small dose and see how quickly it clogs up the filter. I have a cartridge filter so it will be a giant pain to remove this much phosphate... which is why I have avoided doing it thus far.
Thanks!!
