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Artesian South Seas 965L w/iFrog - ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

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Botswana:
Dang my @ease has been in over a month at 3 setting and still has a little left :x

guardrail22:
have not tested for phosphates but well analysis does not indicate a high level and we run all water into the tub thru a charcoal filter. Will test it.

pH is kept within required ranged. Normal bather load is two people 6-7 days a week. Holidays its goes up to 4-5 depending on who's here. We shock after every use, usially the next morning. 4oz minimum. I mail order it in 5# bottles.

I can add dichlor at rate of 4-5 oz at a time, total chlorine goes up but free barely moves of minimum.

two issues with waterfall. The pillow doesn't match the slot in the wall for the waterfall. the ends of the slot cause the water to "roll over" at the ends.  Replacement parts have same issue.

I'll try to get some pictures/video and post after xmas.

Hottubguy:
What do you have your filter setting set for?  I remember in another thread it seemed low to me. Your tub is a huge tub so the frog system might not be the best system for you

Sam:

--- Quote from: Hottubguy on December 24, 2018, 01:13:05 pm ---Your tub is a huge tub so the frog system might not be the best system for you

--- End quote ---

I agree.  Add that to the fact that you have a pretty heavy bather load.  I would consider adding a couple of tsp of dichlor immediately after each use and save the non-chlorine shock for once per month.  Since it can be a pain to measure stuff out after soaking, I recommend finding some old film canisters or something similar and pre-measuring them.  I think maybe 3 tsp to start.

Another factor to consider is that if your spa was never properly decontaminated after the initial infection, when you refill the spa it's just being recontaminated with the water that remained in the plumbing.  How did you decontaminate the spa?  There is a method that you can find somewhere on this site that will definitely kill everything.  I've seen it quite a few times where the new water is just reinfected but it can be a kind of slow process so people often don't put 2 and 2 together.

It's quite possible that you are still dealing with the affects of the initial problem.  I strongly encourage you to do a proper decontamination procedure.  The use of ahh-some in conjunction is advised. 

I will add again that this program really has been fantastic for the overwhelming majority of people who use it.  I just had a guy mention it an hour ago.  We converted him from another program and he remarked how much better the @ease system is.

Michael Russell:
Thought I would add...

Marquis Epic tub. About the same size also with the Ease Frog System. Running Bromine cartridges (chlorine carts are not available in Canada right now).

We have average of 3 people in the tub 6 nights a week. I have been struggling to keep my bromine up as well. My local Spa dealer suggested putting in a 1/2 tsp of bromine for each bather after use. He mentioned this when  I went in with some cloudy water.

I have been doing this for a couple weeks now and the bromine level has been sitting at about 2 ever since. I still have the frog bromine cartridge in and set to 6. I have been refilling it with bromine tablets.  I need to refill it about every 3 weeks.

It would appear as mentioned that the frog system cannot keep up with the size of water and daily usage load that we both seem to having.

I like the idea of the film canisters. Although they are getting hard to find :-)

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