Clorox Brand Calcium Harness Pool

[drauka99]

Down here in the south its next to impossible to get Calcium Chloride as a snow melt. Guess you need snow for stores to carry it. Anyways after some research I found this stuff.

And found the SDS sheet here

http://www.cloroxpool.com/sds/19005CLX.pdf

The listed chemicals are:
Calcium Chloride 75-97%
sodium chloride 1-2%
potassium chloride 2-3%

From looking at others listing of pool Calcium hardness adjusters that people have used I am thinking this one is sutible for my DIY 2 part. Any thoughts?

 

[disc1]

That should be just fine.

Funny, when you see the word "Chlorox" your mind immediately goes "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" but that looks like it would be just what the doctor ordered.

 

[drauka99]

Thanks for chiming in. I have done a good bit of looking around before even suggesting the product. Would still give me a warm and fuzzy if a few others chimed in though.

 

[JuJuMan16]

hmmm good find, following this one as well.

 

[bertoni]

I agree that the product looks okay. Any product might have some trace contaminants, though. I personally wouldn't worry much about that. Please let us know how well it works!

 

[disc1]

When you think about it, I probably trust this more than the driveway stuff. Chlorox also makes pool-shock (calcium hypochlorite / powdered bleach) do they not? If so, one of the byproducts of that production is a ton of pretty pure calcium chloride. I would assume, just from a business sense, that's what they're selling here.

 

[drauka99]

I figure its all re branded from one manufacturer

I'll be picking up a 5lb jug this weekend for making some Part 1 of 2 Part. 5lbs for ~$10... seeing as how the other stuff isn't available here this is a decent substitute.

 

[chris.scang]

I live in Florida and I have been using hardness plus for calcium hardness from Leslie's pool supply for almost two years now and haven't had any problems with it. I would guess that the Clorox product is very similar.

 

[drauka99]

I used recipe #2 - 1-1/4 cup of calcium chloride to 1 gallon of ro-di. That stuff does get HOT. Deformed the bottom of my mixing jug some before I could get it stirred. I'll do some testing and see what kind of Ppm I am getting in the mix.

 

[drauka99]

Dosed tonight based on Randy's Calcium Recipe 2... Tested calcium after dosing and numbers matched up. I'll keep posted but seems to be the higher concentration calcium chloride mix.

 

[JuJuMan16]

Awesome! I'm gonna pick up some on my way home tonight.

 

[drauka99]

it took it a few days to settle out. I know Randy says you can dose that too but I don't think I am.

Also make sure to stir it as soon as you add water, the reaction got VERY hot and deformed my thin plastic mixing jug.

 

[bertoni]

I wouldn't dose the precipitate from a calcium chloride or sodium carbonate solution, but it's likely to be harmless.

 

[Ron Reefman]

drauka99, just an idea. I live in SW Florida and I found a tennis supply outfit that sells Dowflake and Mag Flake in 50lb bags. It's used to keep down dust on clay tennis courts.

The Clorox stuff is $10 for 5lbs. I get Dowflake in a 50lb bag for $18. That's 10 times the product for less than double the cost.

The Clorox stuff looks good and for small users, it's fine. But I buy in volume because I have 4 tanks and dose a 50lb bag of Dowflake in 12 to 14 months. I also sell it at about cost in smaller increments to other local reefers who use less.

 

[drauka99]

I'll keep an eye out for it but havnt come across it here yet. My demand for supplements is low right now, so this works. Also trying to find some mag flake here too. Mag sulfate works but I'd rather go with the other recipie.

 

[mighties_keeper]

I just dumped a hard 50lb bag of mag on my driveway a couple weeks ago. It sucked up moisture in my shed. It is cheap in Michigan, horrible snow.

 

[Ron Reefman]

It's cheap here in SW Florida too, and trust me, we don't have any snow. In 15 years here I've seen frost twice. But it's not easy to find here. That's why I suggested the tennis supply trade. And shipping costs from up north are crazy.