Quote Originally Posted by shub_31 View Post
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!