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Thanks! So I have only done this once before and I remember it was confusing last time as well. So can I tell you how I got here? When they came to open the pool there was debris in the bottom (leaves etc., we live in New England) but the water was very clear. We had metal stains and years ago...

I literally can't tell what my CYA is because it looks different in every light. I have complained about it in here before but this time my question is related to slamming: So when testing CYA, the little dot starts to disappear around 60 and in most settings I can still kind of make out the...

Thanks, that was what I thought. Gonna kick it up a bit to see if it helps Chris

I'm using the real test - the Taylor FAS-DPD. I'm guessing 37 because it looks a little under 40. I've written on here about how I have a notoriously hard time reading the CYA test. Depends on the time of day, the angle of the sun, probably also how tired my own eyes are lol

Hi guys - Thanks in advance as this forum has been an incredibly valuable resource to me in the past. My pool has been taking ~90+ fl oz LC (12.5%) some days recently as the summer heat gets on it. I've had to SLAM in the past and I'm concerned about the CYA getting so high that it's...

I know all the arguments for using LC over tabs and I don't need any convincing about that. Thanks to this site I'm a full convert about LC. My local pool guy is in his 80s and hasn't taken any precautions about the virus and I don't want to be the reason he gets sick. They don't even take...

Thank you for answering me! The new smaller ones are Trichloro-S-trazinetrione (picture attached). The ones I had been using (~7/day) were the same ingredient, but listed as 63% Trichlor instead of 98.6% (the new ones). The guy at intheswim.com had not been trained but he talked to his...

Hey guys - I posted a couple weeks ago here about the difficulty in getting LC where I live and unfortunately using chlorine tabs instead until things get back to normal. I don't want to do it but it's been fine so far until I just ran out of the first barrel of tabs and opened up the second...

Yeah of course I don't want to, but I have a feeling I'm going to end up doing the same thing. Funny, thanks to TFP, this year opening the pool was the least hassle it's ever been - CC of 0, a little dash of muriatic acid, then just some leaves to get out and it was ready to go in a day. All...

Both Home Depot and Lowes show the item as out of stock. Wonder if that could be because people are buying liquid chlorine to use as a disinfectant? I really don't want to go to Walmart if I don't have to. If it was between that and driving 35 miles for curbside pickup I'd probably drive 35...

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this question. I saw a similar post on here about Calcium Chloride. I want to support my local pool guys, but there's a quarantine in MA and even once they're allowed to open, they don't take credit cards and so going into the (very small) store and...

Thanks again to everyone for your help with this. Discovered out of the blue today that the reason the FC was dropping so much was the CYA went from 50 to 0. I thought it was very uncommon for this to happen, no? When the pool was still green I quadruple-checked the CYA every time I checked the...

OK I'll proceed this way. So it's impossible that the messed up pH and TAC cause the cloudiness? Thanks Chris