Are Phosphates for "Real"

@DavidSPL is spot on here… I was surprised to find that our source water has a high phosphate level, close to 1800 ppb. It's important to test for this because even if you reduce the phosphate level in the pool to a few hundred ppb or less, it gets added back as soon as someone drops a hose into the water. 

For those who purchase any of the Natural Chemistry brand phosphate removal products, be sure to get your free phosphate test kits. 

I always forget to mention their free test strips. Very nice of Natural chemistry. Thanks for the reminder to everyone!

Thanks for the great video! We are always trying to explain to customers why they need more than just chlorine and acid to balance their pool chemistry. This is a great way to explain it to them. 

High Phosphates? (Non-issue with PoolRx+)

• When using PoolRx+ as directed, there is no need to worry about, test or treat for phosphates.  
• Phosphates are food for algae. Phosphates do not consume chlorine.  You cannot see, smell, feel, or taste phosphates.  
• Phosphates feed the micro algae, and the micro algae consumes the chlorine. 
• With PoolRx+ there is no micro algae.  You will be algae free, using less chlorine and it won’t matter how high your phosphate levels go.
• If you are ‘making money’ selling Phosphate remover, you can continue to do so, there are no adverse reactions with PoolRx+ and phosphate removers.

Anyone that would be a phosphate “denier” I would immediately ignore. Too many times with too many pools it’s been a phosphate problem that it’s boiled down to, that magically was solved once I ran a phosphate treatment. Not to mention for us in the pool industry it’s so easy and relatively cheap to test and treat for them, there’s just no reason to have your “head in the sand” so to speak.