Help no instructions with my 6 way test kit from walmart

[gordyjamz]

I have this same test, but when i do the hardness test, I put 5 dropd in, and it turns yellow, not red. What does this mean? Does it matter considering that my pool is a vinyl liner?

[gordyjamz]

I guess I should say it turns yellow like a urine color, not like the yellow for the chlorine test.

[bparks]

I have this same test, but when i do the hardness test, I put 5 dropd in, and it turns yellow, not red. What does this mean? Does it matter considering that my pool is a vinyl liner?

Guessing that it's bad chems, i have one of these kits from last year, and a new one. One does the same thing, and the other works right.

[dawndenise]

gordyjamz: I also have encountered the "yellow" calcium hardness test. I do not know why it is sometimes yellow initially rather than red. A comment on another thread suggested minerals, but that was not verified by any other poster in that thread. My tests for calcium hardness ran red initially but, except for one intermediate day, have been yellow since. I still use the test and count drops (x10) until the color turns a light green, rather than blue. Seems to work just fine that way. The results correlate with the results achieved with Ben's testing kit, which I've recently received.

Sandy