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[cjryan33]

Im sorry, I had a typo. My salinity is 3300ppm

[PoolDoc]

OK, good!

[cjryan33]

Alright Doc,

I turned my SWGC off. This morning I added on gallon of Liquid Chlorine before leaving for work( already had this) it is labled Shock - Chlorinating liquid for Pools and Spas. The wife added a 1/2 gallon of muratic acid and 3lbs of BioGuard Stabilizer 100 (already had as well) next trip to Sams will be picking up the Dichlor. Got home and added 3lbs more of Stabilizer and 1/2 gallon of acid. After swimteam came home and tested. The results are as follows

FC - 6ppm
PH - 7.3
CYA - 55-60. All of the stabilizer may not be dissolved as of yet. Thank you for your assistance.

[PoolDoc]

After swimteam came home and tested.

Coach, swimmer, or parent? Summer league or USS?

[cjryan33]

Just a parent. I have two daughters 7 & 9 who both love being in the water. This will be their first year on a team. From what I saw from their first practice is that it is very beneficial to have a pool that they can swim in just about year round.

The wife will be picking up some Dichlor on her next trip to Sams. Should I go ahead and get another bottle of stabilizer to get me to the 70-90 range or wait until I get the Dichlor? From the best guess chlorine chart my chlorine ppm level is where it shoudl be. I have 2 more bottles of the liguid chlorine but I did not put any in this morning. My SWGC is still turned off. Should I go ahead and turn it back on at a lower % output? Thanks.

[PoolDoc]

If you can buy dichlor from Sams, I wouldn't buy any stabilizer. The price is low enough, so that it's cheaper to by dichlor as 50% stabilizer, at $2 per pound, than it is to buy local small quantities of 100% stabilizer at $4 or more per pound.

Buy borax, though, since dichlor will tend to push your pH down over time . . . BUT besides raising the pH, adding enough borax to reach 50+ppm of borates has advantages of its own.