Hi there -

I received Ben's test kit last week and went right to work converting my Baqua-crud pool to the First Church of BBB. It took about 4 full days.

Everything seemed to go just as described by most other converts in this forum (pictures to follow), and I thank each and every one of you. Your posts have been invaluable to me.



Now I'm ready to level-off the rest of my chemicals and button-up the pool for the winter.

Here are my present vitals:

Pool: Above ground vinyl, est. 12,500 gallons
Location: Upstate NY (we typically endure long, below freezing winters with occasional fluke temperature fluctuations)
FC: 5
CC: 2
TC: 7
pH: 7.2
Alk: 140
Cal: 140
Cya: 0

For starters, I just added 4.5 pounds of Cya, so we'll see what that does.

Can someone steer me from here? And how can I get my CC to 0? It seems it's going down ever so slowly, but is there something I can or should do to speed things up a bit?

Thanks in advance.