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Nevermind. My daughter just reminded me that this is the first time we opened with a 0 ammonia reading. ( I use my aquarium tester, which is drops, not test strips). The past years I had ammonia to deal with.

Thank you for the quick reply. I will continue to SLAM. I was just confused because every other time I SLAMed my chlorine consumption was a lot higher, sometimes with all of the free chlorine consumed overnight.

Hello everyone! First, thank you for freeing me from the pool store. This is my third year using TFP. Quick background: Tried to open pool at the end of April, found my skimmer was cracked. Landlord took 4 weeks to replace (can't complain, he is great, if slow). Had a total black swamp...

Thank you!

I am no expert, but I had similar situation. Moved into a house with a pool that had been ignored for 2+ years. Water was green/black. A diligent SLAM cleared it. This site is a lifesaver!

I keep reading about "high bather load". Is there a way to calculate it? Or is it just trial and error, keeping track of number of people and how testing is affected?

Thank you everyone! I will raise the chlorine tonight, like zea3 said. If I'm still not happy with it, I will slam again!

Sorry. OCLT results: Evening: FC 4.5 CC 0 Morning: FC 3.5 CC 0 So I lost about 1 ppm of FC overnight. The bather load was extreme and unusual...both kids agreed to have friends on the same days...usually if one has friends over, the other refuses to use pool. They can't agree on the time...

Results of OCLT were as follows: FC 3.5 CC 0 Where is the chlorine going? Should I do a SLAM? Is there some type of formula for bather load, that is "math-easy"? Talked to kids and hubby about number of people in the pool...pointless...hubby is retired and loves playing host.

I will do the OCLT in the morning. And the "kids" are teens and twenty somethings...kids to me!

First a confession...I cheated on my SLAM. Started SLAMming and pool was just eating chlorine. I ran out of one of the chemicals to test the chlorine. I had to order it online, as no one carried it. (Side note: Leslie's Pools will never get another penny from me for anything! Sent me on...

Apologies if this is in the wrong section. Should ammonia readings be zero? My reading is less than .25. I have goldfish aquariums, so I have ammonia tests. BTW, don't use the test strips from the pet store. They are as bad as the test strips from the pool store. Use the drop test.

Not going to happen fast :(. Over the course of the last two weeks, I've had so many distractions and have only been able to attend the SLAM 2-3 times a day. But now I finally have the time. As you can see, the green is gone! I can just see the bottom when vacuuming.