/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11356958]

Redpill me on swimming in a backyard pool with chlorine. I'm trying to shock the pool with chlorine for a week, should I avoid swimming during that time?

[Anonymous No.11356967]

>>11356958
Make a pond. Swim in that. It'll be healthier than swimming in a pool of literal chemicals.

[Anonymous No.11356986]

>>11356967
There are bacteria in ponds that if they happen to get insode your nose theyll eat ypur brain with no warning. You just start feeling ill suddenly and then die. Look it up.


Chlorine may not be the best but you still habe to drink it because its in most waters.

[Anonymous No.11356992]

>>11356967
>>11356986
meningitis

[Anonymous No.11357019]

>>11356967
>>11356986
you can filter with plants and oxygenate the water from the pond with a pump to avoid that i think

[Anonymous No.11357047]

>>11356958
fren, my pool is crystal clear and yet it eats 10ppm of chlorine each day, what do?

[Anonymous No.11357505]

>>11356958
Her shoulder width is almost greater than her hips. Not sure what to think here.

[Anonymous No.11357586]

>>11357505
just asian

[Anonymous No.11357994]

>>11357505
means she swims a lot. fastest way to get broader shoulder is to swim

[Anonymous No.11358548]

>>11356958
Don't use chlorine is the best option. Use salt and make a slightly salty water pool. Will still keep it clean, kill pests, keeps bugs away (they only like non salt water), not as harmful to you. Find the lowest concentration that keeps it clear, it should be such that you can open your eyes underwater and feel nothing. It shouldn't even taste salty.

[Anonymous No.11358567]

>>11357019
yeah because amoebas are allergic to plants

[Anonymous No.11360042]

>>11356958
You can handle a lot of chlorine.
back at uni I used the pool, which was filled with unbelievable amounts of chemicals due to some students not knowing how to spell h-y-g-i-e-n-e. So I had red eyes after every swim but otherwise no ill effects.

[Anonymous No.11360048]

>>11356958
They used to use iodine. Now they use chlorine. Think about that.

They used to put iodine in your flour. Now they put bromine.
Think about that.

[Anonymous No.11360102]

>>11356967
>literal chemicals
what do you think that word means

[Anonymous No.11360261]

>>11360042
Anon, chlorine was not why you had red eyes... reread your post...

[Anonymous No.11360670]

>>11360048
I bought some lugols iodine recently after the guy on /pol/ shilled it.

[Anonymous No.11360677]

>>11360670
How's it working?

[Anonymous No.11360825]

>>11356986

Nibba...that only happens in warm stagnant water.

[Anonymous No.11360842]

>>11360677
Haven't tried it lol. I use dextromethorphan hydroBROMIDE fairly regularly and he said that the iodine will detox the bromide, so I'm waiting until I cut down on the DXM then I'll go slow.

[Anonymous No.11360933]

>>11356958
>I'm trying to shock the pool with chlorine for a week
I spent my summers growing up cleaning pools and I strongly suspect you have no idea what you're talking about and best case scenario you end up with mild chemical burns.

[Anonymous No.11360943]

>>11360933
This. Doing a pool/spa shock doesn't take a week and you can use simple test steps to determine when the water has reached safe levels.

Shocking the pool is generally only necessary if it's gone out of whack and not been attended to.

[Anonymous No.11360982]

>>11360842
Lol
Never change /sci/.

Anyway, bromide is a shitty old timey sedative, iodine is just expensive its treated differently in the body from chloride and bromide. Which makes sense because of the difference in chemical reactivity.

[Anonymous No.11362185]

>>11356958
You can use potassium permanganate. The colour will make sure people will keep away.

[Anonymous No.11362234]

>>11356958
The breakdown of biological material, especially waste, forms some very nasty compounds and god forbid you accidentally absorb or ingest them in any quantity. There's still time to go the salt route.

[Anonymous No.11362877]

>>11360933
I definitely have no idea what I'm talking about which is why I started the thread. Here's a pic of my pool, thats green algae isn't it? It gets kicked up and suspended when I walk on it.

>>11360943
What tests?

[Anonymous No.11362880]

>>11356958
UV sanitizing lights are what rich people use in their indoor pools. This is sufficient to kill virtually all bacteria and pathogens.

[Anonymous No.11362927]

>>11362880
what kind of UV lights are we talking about here?
can i afford to have them if i'm not rich?

[Anonymous No.11362944]

>>11356958
Just use baquacil. Its not as rough on your body, but kills bacteria. Its not as good as chlorine for body grossness but you don't need that, you're not sharing your pool with riffraff that doesn't shower before swimming, pee in pools etc.

[Anonymous No.11363027]

>>11362877
You need to vacuum the pool regularly. That doesn't look like algae as much as it does just dirt, filth, and shit that is going to settle at the bottom of still water, dump all the chemicals you want, its not coming out of the pool without it being manually removed. Either by a vacuum, or with a little above ground pool like that, just drain the thing and hose it out.
Does that thing even have a filter? Even one of those little dinky jobs you hang off the side?
As for the test, it's a little plastic box that is a series of graduated cylinders that you fill with pool water and add a drop of reagents to each vessel so you can compare the levels of the chemicals in your pool.
Whatever you do, don't just leave a standing pool of untreated fresh water sitting for a long period of time or you're just going to breed mosquito.

[Anonymous No.11363050]

>>11356967
>idiocy: the post

[Anonymous No.11363112]

>>11363027
Ok thanks. It has a filter. My dad vacuums it. I sweep up the bits of stuff - leaves, bugs etc with a net I sweep around the bottom, but it seems to keep accumulating. It doesn't have mosquitos but it has backswimmers, though I've killed about 10 and they seem to be mostly or entirely gone.

[Anonymous No.11364515]

>>11362880
Is that UV for the ozone generator?
With ozone you avoid the chloramines which is good and bad (you don't know how many pool relievers have been at it).

[Anonymous No.11364535]

>>11356967
the world is made of "chemicals". everything you take in, every bite of food and every breath of air, is 100% "chemicals"

[Anonymous No.11364729]

>>11356958
>>11356967
you can use harmless iodine instead of chlorine.

[Anonymous No.11365832]

>>11356958
Yes, avoid swimming while shocking the pool with chlorine. It's no big deal. Sometimes your pool chemistry gets annoying, with the pH going too high one day to seemingly too low the next. Whaddya gonna do, right? Just go ahead and do your shock treatment, then adjust with your chemicals on a daily basis after that, and enjoy your pool! Whee!

[Anonymous No.11366321]

>>11356967

You could fill a pool with nothing but distilled water, and it would be 100% chemicals.

[Anonymous No.11366428]

>>11356958
if you keep ratio 1/1000 for 5-7% chlorine solution, you will be fine