FROG® 5-Way Test Strips | 50 ct | For Mineral Systems

FROG® 5 Way Test Strips are the dedicated water testing strips for FROG® mineral systems and any spa or pool running on a lower-chlorine or lower-bromine program. The bottle contains 50 strips, each capable of reading five water-balance parameters in seconds: Free Chlorine, Bromine, pH, Total Alkalinity, and Total Hardness. Why test strips matter and why FROG®-specific test strips matter: standard hot tub test strips are calibrated for traditional chlorine programs that run at 3–5 ppm of free chlorine. FROG® mineral systems are designed to operate at much lower sanitizer levels (typically around 1 ppm) — the minerals are doing the rest of the work. Try to read a FROG® mineral spa with a generic test strip and you'll get a "low chlorine" warning on water that's actually perfectly balanced. The FROG 5-Way strips are calibrated for these lower ranges, so the readings match how your system was designed to operate. For traditional chlorine or bromine spas that aren't using FROG® minerals, these strips work just as well as a standard 5-way test strip — they read the same five parameters across the standard ranges. They're a fine general-purpose hot tub and pool test strip, with the added benefit of giving accurate readings at the lower end of the scale. Why Reading the Right Range Matters: A test strip is only useful if its color scale actually matches what's happening in your water. Standard strips can read "low chlorine" on a properly sanitized FROG® mineral spa, which prompts owners to dose unnecessary chlorine. FROG® 5-Way strips are designed to read accurately at the lower levels FROG® systems use — so you don't add chlorine you don't need. Brand FROG®