Phosphate testing seems to be the latest pool store scam to get people to buy expensive chemicals. Phosphate removal is a last ditch effort. Maybe one in a thousand pools requires it. Many of our members have a heart attack when they find their phosphates are high, but following our methods their pools stay clear, clean and sweet--WITHOUT removers. So why bother testing for them?

You go through ALL the steps for clearing your pool first before you go to phosphates. This starts with proper chlorination, proper shocking, patience and persistence. If, after a couple of weeks of PROPER algae clearing techniques your pool is still cloudy, you look to other causes and treatments.

Finally, after ALL of them have failed, you test and treat for phosphates. This is, as I said, one in a thousand.

Respectfully, I suspect that if you follow the standards for chlorination established here, you won't have problems and you won't need phosphate removal chemicals--unless you are that one pool in a thousand.