Recent content by rapfeifer

Thanks for clear answers to questions not easily answered elsewhere!!! Our pool has had an ammonia problem, and only here have I found out what it was, and possibly why. Not fun to deal with, but at least we can!

We do regularly use phosphate remover, as we have had phosphate problems in the past - if you think ammonia uses chlorine, try to beat phosphate. :x Much cheaper to do prevention... I put in algaecide because we had visible algae growth and the chlorine levels weren't staying high enough long...

Re: It Can Happen to Anyone - Zero Chlorine, CYA-->Ammonia Well, we left the inline chlorinator (trichlor tablets) running at our usual maintenance level while we were gone five days...came back home to a nearly clear pool. (Not crystal clear, but barely hazy in the deep end.) BUT - A ittle...

It happened to me! In two days of light usage our CYA went from 80 ppm with crystal clear water to zero with severely milky water. No green algae, no apparent algae at all. We've been trying for 10 days to figure out what happened. :hammer: Our local pool guy really didn't have a clue. He...