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Re: Funniest/ most ridiculous thing the pool store has told Clarification. I meant phosphates (need to watch my misspellings).

Re: Funniest/ most ridiculous thing the pool store has told Today I was in a pool store getting a part and mentioned I used bleach. Meh said the bleach addsnphosphatesm(algae food) to the pool and that I should switch to liquid chlorine. Seems odd...i have not read that anywhere yet.

I did get my test kit with cya. It seems to have leveled out at 35-40. I have switched to bleach and am maintaining to 5ppm. I still loose 3-4 ppm on sunny days. Should I bump my cya up to 50ish? Also my ph finally dropped to 7.2 after holding at 7.5-7.6 for a week. It happened right after...

Did any of you have an input to my situation?

Sorry, I should have mentioned my santizer program. I have read the pool school articles and am in the process of implementing as appropriate. Starting with Chloring and pH After refilling the pool I dose the pool to 6 ppm with dichlor to begin raising my FC and CYA levels. It dropped to 3...

Being a Palawan I put my AG pool under a palm tree and next to a juniper. The season here is late spring and the palm trees are dropping their berries, pollen, and misc junk, while the juniper wanted to join in by shedding some if it's green buds, into my pool. We had a recent algae bloom that...