Hi, I'm a new hot tub owner (mid October) and have found this forum very helpful. I just changed my water for the first time this week. It has been too cold here in central IL to do it before now, but long overdue. Yes, I made a few (numerous!!) newbie mistakes and the water was cloudy and smelled like chlorine. Yuck. My dealer told me to add one half cap MPS after each soak. And, once a week, add one half cap dichlor, 1 oz. clarifier and 1 oz. stain and scale defender. I had zero FC. He said don't worry about it unless the water was cloudy. Not a good plan.
This time, I'm going to use 1 teaspoon dichlor after each soak and shock with dichlor one week and MPS the other week. No clarifier this time, unless things go really bad. I think it clogged the filter.
Sorry, this is long, but here is my question. I have a small spa, 225 gallons, with only one long filter. The frog cartridge seems to restrict the water flow when I put it in the filter. It could be my paranoia about sticking something in the filter well, but I don't think so. The filter is an open style with a round floating weir. I can hook it on the outside of the basket, but the stick hits my foot when I sit in the lounger. Can I just lay it on the floor in the foot well? There is a big round water intake on the side of the foot well. I can't really tell from the "manual" what it does, but I do know it isn't a jet.
Thanks for all your help.
Jules