CYA and brushing

[smokeygrl]

Waterbear, can I begin to aerate now (with pH at 7.2) or does it only work if I aerate at the same time as I add the Muriatic acid? In other words, do the 2 go hand in hand or is the pH low enough now to get the same result?

[waterbear]

Are you planning on running your pool with 100ppm CYA or are you going to be diluting more? If you are going to be diluting I would not worry too much about your TA until you finish that. If you are going to run a higher chlorine level and keep the CYA at 100 then you can start airating now but you will get faster results if you can get the pH to about 7 first.

[smokeygrl]

Okay. Thank you. The plan is to drop the water level down a couple more times and refill - I don't really like the idea of using almost double the bleach to keep the pool clean (with a CYA at 100) so, I'll hold off on aerating. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Take care.

[waterbear]

Okay. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Take care.

That is what this forum is all about! I would imagine that eveyone on here (except maybe Ben) was a newbie once. I myself lurked on this forum for about 2 years reading and learning all I could before I even registered to ask my first question!

You are doing great and seem to have a very good understanding of what is going on in your pool. Welcome to the forum!