Quote Originally Posted by jaimslaw View Post
My swg is a fair distance to the first non eyeball return - probably a good 10 feet.
That's actually quite close. A large distance would be more like 30-50 feet as occurs in my own pool (though I don't have an SWCG). Too bad it's not an eyeball return where you could force the emerging bubbles to spend more time mixing with the water.

The TA should be dropping over time on its own from your acid additions. You shouldn't have to explicitly work on it. Just don't add the baking soda (or Alkalinity Up) that you have probably been doing that has kept the TA from falling. Do I have that right that you have been adding something to keep the TA up?

It's also possible that the acid you are using is very weak. Check the label to see if it gives a percentage of "Hydrochloric Acid" and tell us what it says.