Phosphates? High CYA!

[onemsmom]

Thank you so much!

[onemsmom]

Question - would adding extra bleach buy me more time between checking/adding or make this process go more quickly or would it just waste bleach? Ex. if I'm supposed to keep the level above 20, would it speed things up to keep it above 30, etc.?

Thanks,

Jennifer

[chem geek]

For shocking, a higher FC level makes things go somewhat faster but the chlorine losses from sunlight are greater since they are based on the percentage of FC. However, speeding up the algae kill isn't the slowest part of the process. The slowest part is then removing the dead algae via filtration.

As for regular maintenance, starting with a higher FC level will have it last longer, but because it drops as a percentage of FC you will be using more bleach. It's not "wasteful" so much as a trade-off between convenience of not adding chlorine as often vs. the extra cost associated with the larger amount of bleach that is needed.