Quote Originally Posted by TexasGolfer View Post
......I've also read that it may take several days after it's put in to register, which has me worried that even if I take them out, the level could keep rising......
I don't think this is true. Once it has dissolved it should be measurable and won't keep rising, unless you add more. I think where the confusion may be is that when adding stabilizer granules separately (those who use unstabilized sources of chlorine need to add stabilizer separately) it takes time for those granules to dissolve, and so the stabilizer level will rise as the granules dissolve. Personally, I find I get a good stabilizer reading about 24hrs or so after adding stabilizer granules directly in the skimmer and running the pump the whole time (the granules get caught in the filter where they then dissolve).

So measure after the pucks dissolve to see if you need to keep adding stabilizer.

Certainly someone here will correct me if I'm wrong.