Chlorine TabletsChlorine tablets and pool water maintenance. Your chlorine tablet (pool stabilizer) information for the pool perfect for you.
Swimming Pool Water ChemistryThese tabs (also called smart sticks) are a safe and effective way to keep your swimming pool clean, clear, and healthy. It can also aid in keeping your pH level in line with no pH bounce.for convenience, put them in your tablet floater or a chlorine tab automatic chlorinator. This will also help keep your
pool maintenance cost
in check.
Typical Chlorine Pool Tab or pucks that you can either put into a swimming pool floater or a chemical feeder. When the water passes over the tablets they dissolve to increase the swimming pool chlorine and cyanuric acid level in the pool. They will also lower the swimming pool pH because they tend to be on the acidic side. Trichlor pucks are very convenient, but there is a catch. When the CYA (pool stabilizer) get too high you will need to drain 1/3 - 1/2 of your water, refill, then start again. Many times pool owners will be going along just fine until something happens like an algae bloom. They test and re-test the pool water and everything seems fine, but the water keeps getting greener and they have no idea why. Probably the CYA is either too high or low. Select The Chlorine Tab Products You Want HereYou need to remember that Trichlor tabs are very acidic so you need to keep the pump running at least 12 hours in the Summer and 6 - 8 hours in the Winter, unless you choose to winterize your swimming pool. If the pump doesn't run long enough you'll get a build-up of pool acid and chlorine which can ruin your swimming pool cover and plumbing. There are some chlorine tablets on the market that say it's safe to put them in the skimmer because they only dissolve when the water is circulating. 
My advice is to just get a good tab floater or swimming pool chemical feeder and use it. Never put tabs in the skimmer. Also remember that for every 1ppm of Free Available Chlorine you will also add 0.6ppm of CYA. Without proper dilution and backwashing of the swimming pool water the CYA will build up very quickly. A higher CYA means a higher level of pool chlorine to properly sanitize your pool unless a good PolyQuat 60 algaecideis used on a weekly basis. Remember that every 10ppm of pool chlorine that is added by using Trichlor tabs you will also increase your cyanuric acid level by 6ppm.
Something else that is good for swimming pool chemical maintenanceis Dichlor, or sodium dichloroisocyanurate. It is a granular, stabilized, and fast dissolving form of pool chlorine and is often used as a swimming pool shock. 
While Dichlor does add pool chlorine it will also increase your CYA level while lowering your pool water pH level. Take care in using Dichlor as your CYA can get out of hand very quickly.Because of this I would recommend either chlorine granules (Calcium Hypochlorite) or liquid pool chlorine (sodium hypochlorite) as your pool shock. Both of these kinds of pool chlorine are good when you shock it without much happening to the CYA level. Remember that Calcium Hypochlorite will raise your calcium hardness.
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