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Chlorine was great for sanitizing, so long as I kept up with the levels....that meant every day or two at most I had to add SOME chlorine to keep the residual up. I went about 4 days once without touching the tub, and wound up with cloudy water.....oops.
...But something was out of whack. you shouldn't get cloudy water after 3 - 4 days. Also, why keep the residual cholorine up constantly? That's not how I understand to use dichlor (get it up to sanitize, and let it drift down)....
I get cloudy water in 2 or 3 days. I have to go and add dichlor on an every other day basis to keep my water clean. I only put 1 1/2 PPM in on the days I don't soak but I still have to add it. I'm amazed when I read that some people get 4 or 5 days out of their water between doses.Of course when my tub gets chlorine lock, I can go a week on 3 PPM and not have it dissipate for the whole time!
Vinny, do you have an ozinator? Do you have a 24 hr circ pump? I just go over some poison ivy and was out of the tub for over a week. Monday night my wife and I hopped in and the water was great. (using Dichlor, ozone, 24 circ pump. No N2) ?