anyone ever use this ?

[gwaco]

bought this today while at home depot . it doesn't have an ingredients list , only states " caution contains calcium chloride "
it was $11 for the 7# container .

[gwaco]

the pellets look like same stuff in the dry stuff used by kent and a few others .

[Loverotties]

I'd e-mail the company for the ingredients.

[REEF-DADDY]

Sounds like dow flake to me!

[Lobster]

Looks to be anhyrdous calcium chloride, which is more potent than the other stuff. RHF says to use 20% by volume of anhydrous in place of the powder form.

[Wiskey]

I use "All clear CA hardness". It works great, and is carried by a major pool company, (meaning you should be able to find it) though I don't know which at the moment.

Whiskey

[clockwork]

That doesn't look like dow flake IMO . I also use ALL clear ca hardness. As the msds sheet is dow's sheet on dow flake . It just repackaged. I would look for a msds sheet on that product.

[gwaco]

Originally Posted by clockwork

That doesn't look like dow flake IMO . I also use ALL clear ca hardness. As the msds sheet is dow's sheet on dow flake . It just repackaged. I would look for a msds sheet on that product.

i called them today so they are sending me the msds sheet . i wonder if i went back to home depot if they would give me a copy of it , i would think they would have msds sheets on every chemical they sell .

[clockwork]

Here is some info I dug up

Pool Time:Calcium Hardness increaser.
.77%-80% calcium chloride.
0.4%-5% potassium chloride
0.2%-0.3% sodium chloride.
0.1% strontium

[clockwork]

Here is the msds for the All Clear Brand . Notice it says dow flake . That is why I chose this product.

http://www.allclear.com/MSDS/Calcium%20Hardness.pdf

[Little Luey]

So, you use this stuff instead of Kalk? how do you dose it?

[Wiskey]

No, not insted of Kalk, that's Mrs Wages Pickling lime, we use this insted of the CA part of a 2 part sulution, Baking soda for the Alk part. We add water to a measured ammount of each to get a ballanced additive per RHF's article.

Whiskey

[clockwork]

Well yes and no The only reason I ever used Kalk was to bring up alk without lowering ph . Using dow flake, mag flake,baking soda replaces the 2 part systems at a cheaper cost.

Mag flake is used as it is better than epsom salts for raising mg

[gwaco]

Originally Posted by clockwork

Here is the msds for the All Clear Brand . Notice it says dow flake . That is why I chose this product.

http://www.allclear.com/MSDS/Calcium%20Hardness.pdf

thanks for the foot work clock! i looked at the dow flake file and unless you have the decimal point in the wrong spot , it looks like the pool time product has less inert potassium and sodium .

[Wiskey]

That's interesting,... wern't some people talking about dosing potassiam for color? Isn't that part of your TM Coral elements ClockWork? It seems I am doising it though my 2 part.

Whiskey