anyone ever use pool chemicals to dose?

[Mycoolhamm]

i own a swimming pool maintenance company. I want to start dosing my tank to jump start my coral growth, can I use pool chemicals or are they not pure?

 

[CC13]

i own a swimming pool maintenance company. I want to start dosing my tank to jump start my coral growth, can I use pool chemicals or are they not pure?

Lol what pool chemicals do you use in swimming pools that would cross over into reef tanks? I'm actually sort of curious.

 

[ReeferReefer]

Depends on the chemicals I suppose. You would know what their purity is like better than us.

 

[Captain Quint]

I had a 20X40 inground at my old home I sold in 96. I used Algaecide, Bromine sanitizing tablets instead of Chlorine Tablets, pH increaser, pH decreaser, Pool Clarifiers, and sometimes Baking soda and Clorox but never in the home aquarium. Would not have been a good outcome. ugh

Would have been funny to use the Polaris Pool Cleaner though. lol

What were you considering using?

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Some people use lanthanum chloride to remove phosphate from their aquariums.

 

[Mycoolhamm]

Calcium chloride is used to raise hardness in Pools as well as sodium bicarbonate for alkalinity. The bicarb is arm and hammer food grade baking soda. Not sure about the purity of calcium

 

[Chad3407]

I use to get down flake years ago for calcium. But they have since dropped there purity.

 

[Mycoolhamm]

Also soda ash is used in pools

 

[Mycoolhamm]

Just curious btw. Would never do it if it wasn’t safe. But I was reading about dosing and a lot of it seemed to be the same stuff. Maybe not as clean though