Problem with conversion from Baquacil! Please Help!!

[mjones]

I’m with y’all!! The way I see it, you have nothing to “gain” by helping me, just doing it out of the goodness of your hearts. So, I trust your judgement. And, your judgement saves me mega bucks. Or atleast it will when my water gets clear. Oh, I forgot, she also, told me that my "conversion" is complete. How can that be if my baq shock is still 51? & why is it still 51 after all the cl i have dumped in there?

Ok, this a.m.
Cya still looks to me: 90, I can’t see the black dot when it gets to this point.
Alk: I have no clue, drop test kits says to put 25 ml of pool water, add 2 drops thiosulfate, stir, add 5 drops alk1, stir, add alk2 dropwise, counting & stirring between each drop til it turns from green to red, then multiply # of drops by 10, & that = alk. So, after 5 drops, blue, after 20 drops, yellow, after 30 & 35 drops, still yellow. Never saw red. So, I just tried the test strip, for the heck of it, it shows 80ish.
Chlorine: I am NO good at this.. I did test normal. Looked darkest pink, which is 5, tried diluting 5 to 1, still looks like a 5? But surely my cl is not 25 or 30? Is there an easier way for testing the cl?
p.h.: 6.8-7.0

But, all being said & done, I do see a MILD improvement in water. It has more of a blueish tint to the cloudiness now. Still a little green tint, but not nearly as bad as it was.

Thank you so much.
I think I am getting close too!!

[duraleigh]

Hi, M,

Your pool is PROBABLY gonna' clear up.

That said, I just can't take you any further because your numbers are too indeterminate.

You need Ben's kit...desperately. (for example, he explains that blue to yellow color change in your Alk test) I make no money on the kit and, notice, you are not pushed to buy it at all by Ben. At some point, you will need to stop guessing or your pool will most likely return to it's very troublesome condition you started with.

Meanwhile, I still think your pool is gonna' be clear in the next 48 hours. Keeping it there may be an issue.

[mjones]

Well, the numbers that I got yesterday were computer tested, so you would think that they were right, but who knows. She did put 25 on the print out for alk, but she said that was only because it wouldn't take a 0.

As far as indeterminate, I think that it is just me, because I am pool ignorant. I just want to swim, that's all. The kit that I got has some more literature with it, but I didn't have time to read it all last night.

Anyway, Thanks for all your help.. I sure hope it clears up soon. Or I may just buy a load of dirt & fill it in. J/K