Totally Frustrated!!!!!

[Sprocket]

Good stuff all said .

I might add this

cya 70 <-- bingo do a search on my name Sprocket and see my problems and how I solved them using this bb's board good advice .

Untill I got my CYA down it was very hard to keep the green away , now mine is 30 it's a breeze again . High CYA = having to have high FC readings in your pool to do the same cleaning action that lower FC does .

From what I have learned to high CYA just defeats the cleaning action of chlorine . While having no CYA lets your pool chlorine disapper in sunlight in just a few hours time .

The way I did my fix was to get the water lvl down and add new water without CYA in it ( well water ) and to use bleach to shock till CC went to 0 and for everyday use I keep FC to 3 - 6 .

I was using pucks and powder shock and both of those have CYA in them , causeing my CYA readings to go to high and then the green appeared .

Plus untill you fork over the coin to get you a really good test kit , your gonna be at the pool stores mercy IMO . That's a MUST as JohnT pointed out .

I am using about a quart a day of Ultra beach atm and it's so nice to jump in and not see GREEN on my sand dimples anymore .

Read , learn and follow advice , way cheaper to do it the right way then to "think" your saving money any other way IMO .

I "shocked" my pool just once this year when I opened it up ( 5-27-07 )after being covered for 9 months , using 6 3/4 gals of Ultra Beach from Save a Lot store at 1.18 USD a jug

I did spend 67 bucks on a Good Test Kit though .

I learned , and now I go to pool store and laugh when I leave cause they didn't sell me but what I wanted to buy Last trip they told me that the more CYA in my water the better , how nice of her to tell me wrong info just to sell more of their product .

enough said .

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gwrace1 , I want a Pool Rover next time I buy for my pool , I been reading nothing but good reports like yours on using them in AG pools

I read about that skimmer also , good item , but I have a light on my return and don't think that will attach , at least from the pics I have seen of it online .