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WOW according to this my pool will lose it's full volume plus about 1 third more over a years time and my hot tub over 3 times it's volume!
Hey Waterbear...I live in Northern California and evaporation is always a problem. I am wondering if you use a cover at all. I use those silly solar fish and they do seem to mitigate the evaporation quite a bit.

Jumping in here, my calcium is also high at 520-530. It is actually hard for me to get it to blue with the kit because the water in the tube starts globbing up as I add more reagent. I recently successfully lowered my alk from 130 to 90. My ph is hanging out in the mid 7's right now for much longer than it ever has. I have had high calcium for years now and my plaster is very smooth. I do get flakes from the returns sometimes, but the cleaner sucks those into the filter, except in the spa where I use the PoolBuster to remove them. It actually seems like there are fewer flakes this year than in previous years...

I am keeping an eye on everyone's borate experiences as well, but things look good now so I don't want to mess with the water chemistry too much.