Bromine reserve - leisure time brominating granular?

[miketunes]

I have leisure time brominating granular already, can I use it with the initial fill to make a Bromine reserve?  The label seems to indicate you can, but it's only 15% Sodium Bromine, and I had read you should use 100% Sodium Bromine for your reserve.  

[RDspaguy]

Does it say what the other 85% is?

Is that your primary sanitizer, or do you have a tablet floater or feeder?

[miketunes]

The rest is dichor-s-triazinetrione, anhydrous.  I was using it as my primary sanitizer but I'm going to switch to the tablet floater.  I'm getting some slimyness now, I'm thinking because I've only been adding the leisure time 2x a week instead of every day.   

[RDspaguy]

85% dichlor is 85% chlorine. You can't really even call that a bromine maintenance system. If you want to use bromine, get a floater. If you want to use dichlor I will detail a system that I use.

[dlleno]

thats a  one-step bromine product that will produce bromine over time.  used regularly, it will build up a bromine reserve, but starting out it will not give you a bromine spa it will give you a chlorine spa with a little bromine thrown in.  Basically its a preparation that relieves one from having to think about how bromine is generated.  But you can do this yourself -- put bromide salts (a reserve) into your spa and then use dichlor as the oxidizer to generate bromine.  You  don't need a floater  -- you can just maintain a bromine spa exactly like you would a chlorine spa (with granular dichlor).

there are a number of bromide reserve products you use to start up a bromine spa.  I just don't get why bromine is perceived to be complicated.  its exactly like a chlorine spa (using dichlor) only you add a one-time dose of bromide salts at startup.  

as for the sliminess -- have you purged recently?