Oh, Hey, hot tubers.
Are you trying to decide between chlorine and bromine for you?
The main sanitizer for your hot tub?
That's a great question.
And one of the ones I get on the floor almost every single day stay tuned.
And I will tell you all the differences between the two.
Hey guys, welcome back.
And honestly, about every single day, I get people asking.
What's the difference between chlorine and bromine for my hot tub.
And the, the answer is both a really good, they're both fantastic
sanitizers for your hot tub.
They're both EPA approved in there.
They both are very, very effective.
On a bromine hot tub.
You need to have your active bromine at three to five part per million.
And that is how you will effectively sanitize the water on a chlorine hot tub.
You need to have your chlorine at a one to three part per million,
and that is your free chlorine.
Not your total chlorine.
So it's really important that you're testing your free chlorine.
So don't be using like OTO test drips, test drops or something like that.
You definitely want to be using a test strip that measures free chlorine or
a DPD tablet on a, on a test strip so that, you know, what's going after that.
The big thing on bromine is bromine will eventually become a combined molecule.
So you've got this nitrogen molecule molecule.
Whatever sweat, pea body oils, phosphates, whatever's floating around
in your hot tub and it's just floating around in it's as happy as can be.
And it's doing its thing either your chlorine molecule or your
bromine molecule, either one.
It's going to go attack that and it's going to constantly beat up on
it and then it's going to actually eat it so that bacteria goes away.
So eventually in time, this bacteria will take over either
this chlorine or this bro bromine molecule, and then it attaches to it.
And when it attaches to that, it now becomes what we call either
a chloroma mean or a Bromium.
The big difference between those two, you can smell those.
So when you walk into a hotel and you can smell the chlorine,
or you can smell the bromine and you're like, oh, things are great.
They have, you know, they got a swimming pool.
I can smell it, they got it.
And they must have a lot of chlorine in it.
It's really.
That's actually bad.
You should never smell either one of them.
And if you are smelling them, you're not no longer smelling
that molecule that works.
You're smelling the molecule that is now combined.
And when you're a bromine molecule, you're still sanitizing.
So even though you're a combined molecule and you smell like really strong chlorine
or bromine, you're still sanitary.
If you're a Cora mean you're no longer affective.
You're no longer doing what you need to do to kill other bacteria.
So a bromine hot tub, well stay clearer longer a chlorine
hot tub, well cloud up faster.
So, and to fix either one of those, either your bromine bromine, that's now a
Broma mean, or your chlorine that's now.
You, what you want to do is you shock that hot tub.
And so when everybody asks, how do you shack a hot tub?
You're going to get an oxidizer.
So something like spa shock, and you're going to put in, you know,
a couple of tablespoons of that.
You're going to open the cover completely.
You're going to turn the jets on and that's what that's going to do is it's
going to get your free chlorine or your free bromine up to 10 part per million.
And it only needs to be there for.
A minute and a half or so, but once you get to that 10 part per million
that supercharges this molecule and it breaks apart, and then this nitrogen
molecule is really weak at that point.
And it's going to float off into the atmosphere.
That's why you gotta have your cover off when you do that.
But it's really important that you do it and you should do
it a minimum of once a week.
So when you shock either that bromine or chlorine, that's what you need to do.
So you do that.
Everything's good again.
And you're moving around.
The reasons people like bromine is because you can get that in tablet form and you
can let it float around in the hot tub.
And you can, it's kind of more like a set it and forget it type thing.
However, it is a super acidic form of sanitation and it'll actually drop that pH
and it'll drop that alkalinity to super.
Your water is always going to be clear, but it's not going
to be very enjoyable to sit in.
And it's really hard on you and hard on the hot tub.
If you're not constantly adjusting the alkalinity and pH chlorine on
the other hand, isn't as isn't as negative, and it's much easier to,
to balance that pH and alkalinity.
However, your it's typically in a granular form, you never want to
put a chlorine tablet in your hot.
And when you're using that granular form, you're going to have to feed it every
three, three to five days, probably more on the three, three days to keep it that
one that's three-part millions a year.
A lot of people will just, every time after they're done with the hot tub,
they'll put a teaspoon or two in.
And that seems to work really, really well, which you aren't constantly driving
that pH and alkalinity down as much.
So it's not as forgiving as bromine, but I personally like it better.
I feel it's a better sanitizer.
I'm not a fan of the smell of bromine.
I really don't like it.
And I really don't like the pH and alkalinity constantly fighting that
the best description I can do can the best description I can give you is.
Alkaline.
I've had people on bromine bring in their water test and their apple Alinity
and pH will be at zero and zero is bad.
It's clear, it's crystal clear, but it will destroy your hot tub.
It'll destroy your hot tub very quickly.
And it's really hard on you.
And it's really hard on the skin.
You know, people will be like, oh, it's but the water looks great.
Well, so does.
Gallon of erotic acid.
It's nice and clear and looks fantastic, but it'll eat concrete.
So those are, that's one of the reasons I'm not a big fan of bromine.
You can definitely do bromine.
And a lot of people love it and they think it's the greatest thing ever.
Personally, if it were up to me, I would do the chlorine
concentrate and I would really.
If you, if you're looking for the easiest system out there, I would
do the at ease chlorine system.
So it's a chlorine cartridge and a mineral cartridge.
It's a once a month program.
It works super, super slick.
I'll have some descriptions down below, or I'll have some links down below
that you can check out where you can actually get some cheat sheets for that.
And I'll put a video up here on some spa frog hacks that I have, but
it's a really, in my opinion, out of all the systems, that's the way.
Spa frog also has a bromine system.
It's a good system.
Um, it's just not as forgiving as the Addys.
So again, I do like the, I like the Addie silver cartridge system,
much better than anything else.
And if it were up to me, that would be the, if you're not on salt, that
would be my sanitizer of choice.
In fact of the hundreds of hot tubs we sell every single year.
If you're not on salt, we're putting you on the addicts.
So be sure to check that out up here.
And guys, I hope this was helpful.
I hope that hopefully it helped explain a few things, but chlorine versus
bromine, my opinion chlorine is better.
There's a lot of people out there that would say bromine is
better, but you, you do you and whatever makes you the happiest.
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