NANO-PHOS

[Dr2Smoke]

Hey all, I pray that your Saturday is filled with sparkling clear pools and the laughter of family and friends.

That out of the way, I messed up–I think.
I purchased some Ultima NANO-PHOS tablets to use because they were only $5 and my phosphates were approaching 2ppm.

I used them almost two weeks ago. They immediately caused a lot of clouding, which I expected. That's almost gone now. What I didn't expect; however, is the fact that my calcium hardness rose from. 175 to 675 in the same time. No other additions were made other than liquid chlorine and muriatic acid.

I did some searching and can't even find a SDS on this product. I did request it from the company itself though.

Does anyone know anything about NANO-PHOS. Is this rise in CH expected? Will it come down as the water clears up with the filter doing it's job?

Here is a picture of the product in question:




I apologize if this isn't the correct sub-forum. Please move it to the appropriate one if so.

Thanks and God Bless.

 

[Newdude]

Welp. It would take 31 lbs of calcium chloride to raise you 500 ppm.

Either it's fouling with the reagents, or they coincidentally went bad right now.

 

[Mdragger88]

How are you testing your water?

 

[Newdude]

How are you testing your water?

I KNOW.

My joke was gonna be 'tell me you use test strips without telling me you use test strips'


But their #s align with Taylor in another thread, or how most newbs split the TA and the CYA to 5's at least.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

The website describes it as a rare earth salt so it’s most likely a combination of lanthanum chloride and some binders. It only treats 0.44 ppm per 10,000 gallons of pool water. Most commercial grade phosphate removers will treat upwards of 9ppm per 10,000 gallons. So those tablets are INCREDIBLY weak (five in a tube so roughly 2ppm treated) for $40/tube … SeaKlear commercial grade phosphate remover costs about $72/quart, removes 9ppm phosphates per 10,000 gallons. Given the size of your pool, one bottle of SeaKlear would last you several seasons.

NEVER believe fancy packaging and marketing hype … 99.9% of the time it’s always BS.