32 oz. Phosphate Remover Pool Clarifier

I don't write a lot of reviews however I felt this product deserved to be heard having owned a pool for years I can not tell you the $$$ I have spent on chemicals, I just built still yet a new pool ( I never learn LOL ) I have well water and when I took my sample in they kept telling me the phosphates were getting higher must be from air pollution and wanted to sell me some 40.00 a bottle phosphate reducer. I always research the why and then the cost can I do this for less and still have quality in doing so I found that if the phosphates are high your pool will grow algae faster, you will use more chemicals and the list goes on so I thought let me try this. One bottle they were at 1000 went back and it had dropped to 300 for half the cost and it works. Side note I haven't had any Algae growth in a month, just try it, yes the water will get milky for a day or so, clean your filter after day one and it will be fine.

The product did not reduce my phosphates instead of doing what it was supposed to do it doubled my phosphate count from 900 to 1945. Leslie's couldn't believe it and they made me go back and get a new sample in a new bottle. I had to buy a commercial grade phosphate remover from them for over 75.00 and used only 8 oz and it took it back down to under 945, I did it again using 4oz and now it is at 300 so one more time and I will have it where it should be using just 2oz. It would be nice if the company reimbursed me for having to pay so much to do what the Pool time product should have done in the first place, since I called and talked to a customer service rep named Shirley and her supervisor in regards to this issue. I let them know that it made it worse and all they said is that is was from the environment, which is untrue because I used the product from Leslie's and it worked right away and I only had to run my pump for 8 hours not 48 hours like the pool time product says. It would not be appropriate for me to rate this product and even give it 1 star since it made my phosphate count worse.

I started writing reviews on everything I bought some years ago. I rely heavily on reviews, but realized that many if not most of the negative reviews I read were flawed because of something more to do with the reviewer than with the product. This is a fantastic product! My pool looked pretty bad...you could barely see the main drain, and it's only 5-1/2' deep! The chemicals I could test (chlorine, ph, acid demand and alkalinity) were well within balance, yet the water was still cloudy. I took a sample to the local pool supplier and learned that the phosphate level was over 300 ppb (parts per billion). Phosphates accumulate for many reasons. One reviewer discussed water from the Colorado River being higher in phospates to begin with...our water comes from the Colorado, also. Another reviewer said that their phosphate level dropped from 300 to less than 100 with one application of a 32 oz. bottle of Pool Time Phosphate Remover. Given this and other reviews I read, I figured one bottle should do for our 15,000 gallon pool. You should've seen what happened when I poured that bottle in! The water did turn quite milky as the instructions indicated, but then it got really ugly. My first thought was, oh no! But, within one hour the hot tub had turned crystal clear. The pool looked terrible. I went out the next morning and the spa was still crystaline and the pool was much improved. By the end of the day, the pool was better than we had ever seen it. This morning the pool and spa were exquisite! Following the instructions, I have left the pump on for nearly 48 hours straight. Throughout this process I checked my basic chemicals and they have remained in balance. I am keeping a bottle of this stuff on the shelf!

I love this product! It is a GREAT price and works well!!

Pool Time Phosphate Remover is magic. Home Depot has the best price too. I recommend it.

On my third bottle in a week, doesn't seem to be lowering phosphate very much.

Rating provided by a verified purchaser

Ever since we started using it our pool stays cleaner.

Put in pool - did the job

It worked exactly as expected. Pool doing great.