Quote Originally Posted by ChuckD View Post
Sounds just like when I was clearing the soup two weekends ago. Is your water still not clear? Like I said, it'll take repeated bumping till it is. That's the DE filtering it out. But I'd hold off backwashing till the water's nearly there. Don't see a need for it.
its blue but not clear enough to see the bottom. this morning i did a quick strip test and my fc was above 10.

i can bump and knock the psi down to like 20 but its back up to 25 within an hour and the water flow is extremely restricted.