just got good test kit. HELP PLEASE

[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!

[BigDave]

My bad, It came from the pharmacy in a gallon jug with white powder - filled with water and it tastes like alot like the ocean.

My observation really is: could the symptom be caused by something in the pool that's not chlorine? or could son of shub be ingesting something that's associated with pool activity?

[shub_31]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Thanks everyone for the help. I will now enjoy my pool and leave everyone alone unti. .l my pool burst into something unusual again. Thanks again. Scott

[PoolDoc]

You're welcome.

[shub_31]

Im back. Can someone tell me if its normal to smell the gases released while aerating. Inoticed when splashing you smell something funny.

[PoolDoc]

Chloramines -- incompletely oxidized goo -- stinks with an acrid chlorin-y smell, when you aerate.

If you are experiencing this, you probably need to look for the source -- not chlorine, the goo! Again, this is often NOT something added deliberately, but rather something like lotion, urine, sweat, cheap algaecides, pool additives, etc. It could be something 'natural' like tree sap (aka aphid pee*) if you have a tree overhanging the pool.

Ben

* Specially for you, Watermom. Aphips pee sugar water, after they remove the nutrients they need from tree sap. It's this aphid pee that ants drink -- ants 'farm' or 'herd' aphids, and that makes the stickly little droplets that get on your car when you park under a tree.

[Watermom]

Gee, thanks, Ben. I'll be afraid to touch my car now! You are such a wealth of knowledge. How have I made it all 29 years of my life without knowing all this stuff!!