just got good test kit. HELP PLEASE

[PoolDoc]

mr impatient here.
Whats my answer.

It's between 80 and 100

. . . and that's close enough.

Really.

[shub_31]

Are you messing with me? Seriously, I can add drops til its gone completly and its around 80 otherwise its closer t
o 100 for most peoples eyesights

weds night

FC 16ppm
CC .5
PH 7.2
TA 200

Weds Mourning

FC 14
CC .5
PH 7.3
Ta 175

LAST NIGHT

FC 11
CC .5
PH 7..2
TA 150

This mourning
FC 7
CC .5
PH 7.3
Ta 120

How are my numbers looking now. Still woried about the chlorine loss at that lower level. Doesthat mean the chlorine was doing its job after we swam in it last night.

[PoolDoc]

Are you messing with me? Seriously, I can add drops til its gone completely and its around 80 otherwise its closer to 100 for most people's eyesight

I'm not messing with you, at least not much. The difference between 80 & 100 is pretty much the same as the "resolution" of the kit at that level and is NOT an important difference!

In all seriousness, what your pool needs MOST now is a HEAVY dose of P.O.P. -- Pool Owner Patience! You are making this too much work, and you need to chill!

Neither you nor I, nor Chem_Geek, can know everything that's happening in a pool. Read some of Chem_Geek's posts in the China Shop, if you want to get an idea how complicated it can be to understand EXACTLY what's going on . . . and that's only the stuff that's understood. There is plenty going on NO ONE understands.

When you try to understand exactly precisely what's happening in your pool . . . you are just beating your head against a brick wall.

And, what's ironic is, when you try to focus at that level, most people end up making their pool WORSE, because they try to over-control.

Still woried about the chlorine loss at that lower level. Does that mean the chlorine was doing its job after we swam in it last night.

Very likely.

Again, let your chlorine drop to whatever, and then raise it to 10 daily. Do NOT worry about the other stuff, except aesthetics: does it look good? does it smell OK? is the color OK?

If the answer to those is, "Yes", and the chlorine goes above 10 daily and the pH is between 7.0 and 7.8 . . . IT'S OK FOR NOW!

Really!

[shub_31]

Thank you very much. Just took a dose of POP. One more question again. My wife is convinced that the chlorine level is giving my 7 year old runny poos. And says its bothering her too. Its just smells a little like chlorine to me and tastes salty. Anymore reassurance. thanks

[PoolDoc]

I don't think I can reassure you any more than I have.

Short of setting up two identical pools side by side one with high chlorine and one without, and putting your son in one for a week and then the other for a week, there's no way to prove that she's wrong. However, there are NO medical records supporting that, that I've ever seen or heard of.

On the other hand, digestive tract performance is well known -- medically speaking -- to be HIGHLY associated with anxiety. And though I'm having to use 'guess strips' here, there seem to be extremely high levels anxiety in, and around, your pool.

The fact is, this is not a problem we can treat chemically. Well, at least, not with pool chemicals.

[BigDave]

A thought, you say the pool tastes salty; ingesting enough salt water will give the observed GI symptom but it takes alot (prep. for colonoscopy usually involves drinking a gallon of highly concentrated salt water to get "cleaned out"). How salty? Like the ocean, like a pickle, like chips? Does your son drink alot of the pool? Does he lick the sunscreen?

[PoolDoc]

Dave, I think you are mistaken on what's used to prep for a colonoscopy. A gallon of "highly concentrated salt water" will kill you, if you don't throw it up!