Take a look at the ingredient list of your trichlor pucks. Make sure they do NOT have copper in them. If they do, you do NOT want to use them in your pool.
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Take a look at the ingredient list of your trichlor pucks. Make sure they do NOT have copper in them. If they do, you do NOT want to use them in your pool.
FANTASTIC NEWS!
There is some progress! The water is MUCH lighter now. It's almost a Carribean blue now. SOMETHING is working..
My numbers seem weird to me though:
Chlorine (using OTO) - bright orange-y yellow with one drop
Ph: 7.4
TA: 100
CYA: 50-60??
Is it normal for my CYA to go UP? I didn't add anything except the bleach.
Should I continue to shock the pool until it's crystal clear?
Don't worry about testing other values for now -- you may not get accurate results.
But, I'd try to hold the chlorine high for a couple of days, before letting it drop.
Okay!Quote:
Originally Posted by PoolDoc
I got my drops today. My VC (right now) is at 20 and I have no CC.. is that bad?
A CC reading of 0 is good! It is what you want! :)
I'm seeing improvement in the water.. but I need some help understanding a little better.
After testing yesterday afternoon, I added 5 gallons of bleach.
I tested last night before going to bed:
FC: 44
CC: None detected
TA: 100
Ph: 7.4
I added nothing.
This morning the number were exactly the same. Except the Ph had dipped a little to 7.2.
So it looks like.. I'm not losing any significant amount of chlorine overnight. Which is good and what we are looking for.. right? And I have no CC.. which (if I'm correct) is the by product created when the pool is 'fighting' something.
But I still have some green. I was in the pool yesterday morning and finally was able to see some green sediment which I wiped away with my scrubber. Rob went in last night and wiped it away again. I have vacuumed with my neighbors pool rover every.
I'm happy to see improvement (GENUINELY) but I want to stay on top of this so I don't see a change back to the nightmare bright green we had previously.
Any hints, advice?
Stay on top of it and maintain the high chlorine. Don't try and test the pH when the chlorine is high or you won't get an accurate reading. Is your pressure rising on your filter? (You should be running the pump 24/7 right now.)
We are running it 24/7 (much to my husband's chagrin).. I don't see a change in the pressure though.. should we?Quote:
Originally Posted by Watermom
Not necessarily. Is the pool clear?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeannie
The no chlorine lost overnight is good news. However, if the green is STILL not gone, you may want to take it up another notch. You do NOT want to get into a new detente or stalemate with your 'super-algae' at a slightly less green level. You want ABSOLUTE victory, as in, all algae dead and all green gone.
It's still green.. but now a more pleasant blue green. I'll keep powering through with the bleach!Quote:
Originally Posted by PoolDoc