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Re: treating cloudy blue water using bbb method for first ti how do you "maintain" the shock level? Do I have to test the chlorine level every 30 minutes? If I would have been doing this for 8 days I would have ran through several test bottles of the chlorine test regeant by now. Not sure if...

Re: treating cloudy blue water using bbb method for first ti I can do the overnight test tonight. Since I just added the bleach and granular shock how long should I wait before retesting the FC level tonight? and will the results be off since I used the granular shock.?

Re: treating cloudy blue water using bbb method for first ti Powdered shock is out of desperation to get this done. Ill stop adding it. I havent tested CC every day, the first 3 days it was 0. I tested it today and it was .5

So We just had a beautiful baby girl, and while we were away our pool gave birth to something as well. Our pool is currently blue, but its cloudy and today is day 8 of me trying to fix it. Any help on what I may be doing wrong? Im vacuuming and brushing once per day. then testing once per day at...

My pool water is clear. I just spent a week getting rid of all the algae I had by maintaining shock levels. (just by adding 3 pucks every other day). I am using 3 inch tri chlor tabs (I have about 10 left). Current levels are fc - 12 cc -1 tc - 13 ta - 90 ch - 270 cya - 60 ph - 7.2 The pool...