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Yea Richard.... I kinda suspected I might be acid poor soon LOL. If I am looking at a CSI of -0.59 vs say something like -0.35, am I going to see a radical difference or am I looking at more of a long term difference (in years) I just want to make sure I am consistently pulling calcium off...

I was trying to keep the CSI the lowest it could be without exceeding -0.6 to descale a bit. I've been riding at -0.59 with the PH at 7.3

22000 Gallons Grey Plaster (Calcified pretty bad) FC 3.0 CC 0 TA 60 PH 7.2 CH 160 CYA Less than 30 (Taylor kit doesn't go that low) Guessing it's at 10 or so Borates 50 BBB Method here but using pucks to bring CYA up to 30-50 range Currently to keep Ph at 7.2-7.4 range I am consuming 1 Quart...

http://www.mcgrayel.com/scaletecplus.html Stain and scale remover.... works pretty good with calcium :party:

Ok so...... love borates.... love scaletec...... any reason they shouldn't be used together????? Pool FC 4 TA 120 PH 7.2 CH 120 Temp 75F

12" Bond beam, min 3" coverage on steel, 9-10" coves. Typical in Cali....

BBB method Will clean filter Friday.... Its really not that dirty but can't hurt.

BBB method Scale was formed from prolonged high TA and PH All of a sudden was overnight.... F

So the answer to my question is???? To little FC? I used the polyq as a preventative measure because i was running a lower FC to avoid fighting with the sequestering agent. If the cloudyness pre algae then I'll up the FC. If its Calcium then I'm fine with it... It's what I want. F

That is called "Mastic" or "Dec O Seal" It is a 2 part epozy. Use silica sand to fill the voids up to about 1/4" then top... F

Well the most important part is prep. what kind of finish is it? F

ooo forgot to say I run a lil polyq 60 to keep Chlorine on the min side

the 7.0 is intentional. Slow steady cleanup of calcium scale. I usually run 7.2 but dipped a bit. F

Bah!!! CC is .5 TC is 5.0

Cloudy Water BBB method FC 4.5 CC 5.0 PH 7.0 TA 50 B 50 CYA 70 CH 200 All of the sudden it went a little milky. Will clean the Quad DE 80 filter this weekend. I did add a treatment of stain and scale 3 weeks ago. Maybe it just started to work? :arrow: