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So have been in this house for a month, new pool owner. Hard water here in tucson. Monitoring with guess strips, shocking once a week or so. Seemed...
To start off with, I messed up big time. I didnt cover my pool in the fall and we started with a frog pond, yes we had frogs. I didnt have the...
I have read as much of the salt threads as I could find, and as soon as my wife heard me say something about adding salt to the pool she insisted I...
Hey Guys, I just stumbled upon this great website about 30 mins ago and have been eagerly reading since. Here's the long and short of it. Recently...
ive been reading this forum for 3 years. I thought that i learned alot. My numbers are so off. ive had numerouse algae blooms overnight. here are my...
My pool got swampy on me over the end of the winter because the motor on my 1-HP Whisper-Flo crapped out and I didn't have time to fix it. I was...
Hello everyone.... I live in NE Pennsylvania and just opened my 24' above ground pool (13K gallon) this past weekend. I've decided to use the BBB...
Maybe I am impatient.. and my common sense keeps saying just stay the course.. keep adding bleach. Anyway.. pool was pretty green 4 days ago.. Now...
I have a midnight blue, 10,000 gallon, gunite pool that is 2 years old. It's had turned completely white or maybe I should say whiteish gray from...
What alterations do I need to make to the BBB system, if I have a nature 2 purifier?
Here are my numbers. Current state of the pool is clear but slightly cloudy. FC: 4 CC: .5 CYA: less than 30 (couldnt get the dot to disappear,...
Hi all. Happy summer of 2011!!!! FC 13 PH 7.2 Alk 80 CYA 30 Hardness. 1gpg or 17.1 ppm. I tested with my well hardness powder test History.
Hello, We have recently installed the 22' x 52" intex AG pool. And of course we filled it before finding this site. So, I for see needing lots of...
Ok... I know I should just look at the results and read what they mean instead of the shortcut of just posting them here, but I cant't resist....
MHi everyone. For the past 2 years I've been taking care of inlaws pool. Father in law had passed away, mother inlaw worrks full time, and brother...
I got some more liquid chlorine (12.5) into my pool today after the sun went down. I just ran some tests and here are my numbers. Pool was just...
Been fighting algae for 8 years. So here I am to try the BBB. I did the phosphate thing, worked ok but very expensive. Did just about everything in...
Does anyone have experience with LaMotte's new ColorQ water test system. It is a colorimeter system vice test strips and uses liquid regents, and...
I just moved to a house that has a pool. I'd never had a pool before - so I'm new to pools and the forum. We opened the pool 3 weeks ago and had...
We bought a house last year that had been vacant for a couple years & the pool had frogs & tadpoles in it. We had it drained, acid washed &...
Since switching to the BBB method I'm using a Taylor test kit. I'm constantly fighting algae, keeping my Cl high ~20ppm (80ppm CYA). The Cl...
Let me start by saying how happy I am that I found this great forum with such knowledgeable people willing to share information. Background info...
Hello, 21,500 gal, IG pool. Just got a new K-2006 test kit and here are the test results: FC = 4.4 CC = 0.2 pH = 7.4 TA = 150 CH = 560 CYA...
Hi, Thanks to all you wonderful moderators, pool survived me being away 9 days...Son put bleach in 'almost' everyday and we had quite a bit of rain....
We set up the new pool this past weekend. We filled with water and it looks a little greenish. We have not hooked up the pump or anything yet as we...
My pool looks clean, I sanitize with 12% chlorine weekly 1.5 gallons, but I still get some green on my stairs. Do I need to brush more often? add...
We're at our wits end trying to get this silly pool swimmable! History is: The pool was not used last year AND it wasn't covered. It's a 28x16...
I switched our pool over to the BBB method about two weeks ago. I purchased a Basic OTO kit and a Taylor K-2006 kit for testing. I have been very...
I picked up this kit today. Rushed home and took a water sample. Sat down and opened the kit. The FC test. Stumped from the gate. The yellow...
hey guys just stumbled onto this site via google searches. my pool is pretty cloudy. a few days ago it was dark green with two dead birds in it, so...
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