Reccomend Shock

[john0886]

Hey there! Hope you all are having a great weekend so far...

I was just wondering what brand/type of shock you guys reccomend? It's pretty tough finding any type of chlorine at the moment, so I'm a bit limited, but I'll do my best to seek any reccomendations online. I've used Clorox XtraBlu for a few years, but don't really care much for their product line. HTH is utter garbage in my opinion which I believe most of you guys agree with here

Let me know any reccomendations you have and they'll be highly appreciated!

Thanks so much!

 

[AK-]

Hey there! Hope you all are having a great weekend so far...

I was just wondering what brand/type of shock you guys reccomend? It's pretty tough finding any type of chlorine at the moment, so I'm a bit limited, but I'll do my best to seek any reccomendations online. I've used Clorox XtraBlu for a few years, but don't really care much for their product line. HTH is utter garbage in my opinion which I believe most of you guys agree with here

Let me know any reccomendations you have and they'll be highly appreciated!

Thanks so much!

Pool Shock is a fancy name to charge you more for regular chlorine that is maybe packaged a different way. Anything with “blue” in the name should be avoided as it is very likely to contain copper.

If you keep your FC at appropriate levels for your CYA level (FC/CYA Levels) you won’t need any shock.

 

[Jimrahbe]

John,

I have three saltwater pools that in total have been TFP pools for over 25 years.. In that time I have never added any type of "shock" to my pools.. If you keep your FC and CYA at our recommend levels, you will never have to add pool store shock to your pool again.. FC/CYA Levels

You should take a good read through our Pool School and see what we are all about..

Thanks,

Jim R.

 

[john0886]

Pool Shock is a fancy name to charge you more for regular chlorine that is maybe packaged a different way. Anything with “blue” in the name should be avoided as it is very likely to contain copper.

If you keep your FC at appropriate levels for your CYA level (FC/CYA Levels) you won’t need any shock.

Got it! Haven't had any trouble at all maintaining the correct FC levels, though my biggest concern with using trichlor is my CYA level rising over time and causing issues. I've experimented some with liquid chlorine (not a big fan) and chlorine granules without trichlor (works out pretty well, but having a very hard time finding any at the moment).

Chlorine tabs are obviously the easiest and most convenient way for me since I have an inline chlorinator, but I've been made aware that they aren't the best option as most tabs contain stabilizer. Do you have any suggestions there?

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate the help.

 

[AK-]

Liquid Chlorine is the only chlorine that you can add to your pool that won’t force you to eventually drain it. Trichlor (tables/pucks) and Dichlor (shock) add CYA while Cal-Hypo (granules) add Calcium. Neither CYA nor Calcium can be removed without drain refill.

If you find adding LC in daily basis too much work you should consider converting to salt water and have a SWCG doing the work for you.

 

[john0886]

Liquid Chlorine is the only chlorine that you can add to your pool that won’t force you to eventually drain it. Trichlor (tables/pucks) and Dichlor (shock) add CYA while Cal-Hypo (granules) add Calcium. Neither CYA nor Calcium can be removed without drain refill.

If you find adding LC in daily basis too much work you should consider converting to salt water and have a SWCG doing the work for you.

I see. Seems like a cool thing to look into! I'll definitely do some research. Thanks for all the help - it's really appreciated.