Cannot Get Rid of Cloudy Water

[aylad]

You can force your kit to read higher..it's ballpark, but it's close, and will work until your Taylor kit comes in...

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthr...a-good-testkit)

Janet

[ajb8898]

Oh, thanks, Janet! I've read about that several times on the boards the past few days and totally forgot about it. I'll pick up some tonight so I can test it!

[Watermom]

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[ajb8898]

OK I tried it with distilled water and did 1 part pool and 2 parts distilled. It's hitting in between 1.5 and 3 so it seems like it already eaten everything I put in this afternoon if I'm seeing this right. I had my sister look and she also agreed that's what it looked like. How much should I put in now?

[Watermom]

Keep your chlorine at the needed level based on your CYA level. (See the Best Guess Chlorine Chart in my signature below.) For reference to help you figure out doses, in your pool, each quart will add 1ppm of chlorine. Add enough bleach to get back to shock level. Try and keep it at shock level until you can go from sundown one evening til withing 2 hours of sunrise without losing more than 1ppm of chlorine. Then, keep it at shock level for one additional day for added insurance. Then you can let the chlorine level drift back down. Run your pump 24/7 while you are trying to clear this up and clean the filter as needed.

[ajb8898]

Bless my poor husband, he went back and got a new pool store reading.

I put in 1.5 gallon last night and another 1.5 early this morning.

CYA: 42
TC: 14
FC: 14
pH: 7.5
TA: 137
ATA: 124

Still looking cloudy but it looks like it killed whatever was growing.

[aylad]

So do you mean that you didn't lose any chlorine overnight, or that you had to add 1.5 gallons this morning to get back up to the 14 ppm? If you didn't lose any chlorine overnight, keep it at shock level for at least another day, as Watermom suggested, and then you can let it come down, but never below 3 ppm.

[ajb8898]

After Anna told me to put in 2.5 gallons yesterday afternoon to shock it, I had to put in another 3 gallons between last night and this morning to get it to that 14.