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[rkooz]

City water

[Watermom]

Yellowish tinge to the water sounds like it could be metals. Look in the back of your toilet tank and see if there are water stains and if so, what color?

[rkooz]

The mark there is brown.

[rkooz]

Also, can someone point me in the right direction in how to read an hth 3 part tester. I tried the pH side. I inserted into pool to fill to top line, put in 5 red drops, closed top inverted and inverted back and the entire column was red. I either have high pH or I'm doing something wrong. Similar thing happened on the chlorine/yellow side.

[Watermom]

How high was your chlorine when you tested the pH? If it was higher than 5ppm, then you'll get falsely high pH. You can dilute the sample to test when your chlorine is past 5ppm. Take 1/4 cup pool water and 1/4 cup distilled water, mix it and then test pH with that.

For the chlorine side of the tester, if your chlorine is higher than 5ppm, you can use the chart at this link to help you interpret the colors that are off the scale of the tester:> http://pool9.net/oto-chart/

[rkooz]

Again, I'm not too sure I'm reading these things correctly but it seemed that it read the highest levels. For the Chlorine side, as soon as I put in the yellow drops and invert, it just turns yellow. Looking at the chart provided, maybe that's what it's supposed to do. I will do the tests today that you (Watermom) mentioned above. Yesterday I was home from work, today I'm not so it will take a little bit.

[rkooz]

I went out this morning to do a test again (not the one mentioned above, need distilled water for that) but I maybe have realized something. The colors on the tester show what the ppm is based on the shade of color the water and the OTO or (whatever the red is called). If that is the case, I have a very low chlorine count (very light yellow) and a very high pH count (dark red). Hope this helps you help me.