3" tabs in floater or skimmer?????

[sunofthebeach]

I so far have been putting my chlorine tabs in the skimmer box. I have since been told that a floater will distribute chlorine just fine and reduce the speed that it disentigrates. Is this true? My levels stay up pretty good, so I wanted to know what ya'll thought. I bought a floater last night and put my "pretty much chewed up tab" in there and had to tie it up to the ladder, cause it got stuck at the skimmer opening. I wanted to try it out. I still value your all's opinion>

Thanks

I say skimmer. When I used the floater you would swim by the floater, or run into it by accident and get a shot of 50 ppm chlorine in your face. Sometimes someone would pick up the floater and the water from inside of the floater come out and get on them.