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One word of warning about clarifiers, though. This is a product where a little is great but a lot can be bad. Clarifiers change the polarity of the particles suspended in the water causing them to attract each other and clump up in larger chunks if you will. If you over dose, the opposit occurs and the particles will repel each other causing cloudy water to become cloudier or stay cloudy longer than had you not added any.
Absolutely. I only use a clarifier as a last resort and usually only when hazy and not cloudy (persistant haze that won't go away with sanitizer and filtering). In five plus years I have used slightly more than one 32 oz bottle.
That's what I like to hear, not over doing it with the chems. Don't get me wrong, I sell a lot of chems to my customers, but I never want them spending money without reason.One other product you might try instead of a clarifier (and I like it better myself) is an enzyme. There a bunch of them out there, but the one I sell is called Natural Spa Enzyme by SpaGuard. Rather than clump all the little particles together so your filter can grab them easier, it breaks them down. End result: clear water, less crap in your filter, improved filtration.Check it out if you haven't tried it. It does run a bit more, but I think it's worth it.
I own an Arctic Spa and historically have had few problems maintaining crystal clear water for at least 2 months with 1x weekly use. After the two month mark, it's more work, but I usually can keep the water fairly polished up until the 3 month scheduled change.Lately I can't get a month out of my water. It's a struggle to keep that 'haze' out of the water. Nothing has changed. Chemistry, hardness, chemicals, & use is the same. I have even been maintaining a slightly higher than average Bromine level. Has my Ozonator packed it in? Do those things really do anything???
If your ozonator is still generating bubbles, it's likely still working fine.
Not true. The only thing the bubbles prove is that your check valve is open.Ozone generators, both UV or CD can burn out and the bubbles will still keep coming.
My corona ozone is about 3 years old, and I fill with very hard municipal water....which gets me thinking... Two things have changed. The last few times I have refilled the tub, I've used 50% hard water & 50% softened water instead of 100% hard water, and I have also changed from 1 Micron disposable filters to the regular pleated filters which I have been switching out every 1.5 (or so) months. I also like the feel of hard water better, is it hard of the heater to run hard water (very hard water - 150ppm hardness)?I going to dump the water and stay with hard water.