Recent content by tdbohannon

Waterbear..what level do you recommend keeping CH at? Mine is at 290 now. As mentioned previously in this thread, I have just moved to the BBB system. I noticed yesterday that my FC had dropped from ~6 to ~2 and that there was some very, very light staining near the water line (I assume from...

By didn't work, I meant that the stains would still come back after shocking, even though the sequestrant directions were followed.

I haven't recently, but when I did in the past, it didn't seem to make much of a difference. Is it possible that the ascorbic acid is removing some type of stain other than a metal stain? I'm by no means a chemist...

Good point that they may not have showed up if they were 'attached'. Now that it isn't stained, maybe I'll take some in for a test. regarding the other question of why I used ascorbic acid if no metals were showing up, it was kind of by accident. The local pool store has mostly clueless...

ascorbic acid.

Thanks. Odd thing regarding metals, no one has been able to find anything more than a slight trace of copper and no iron whatsoever. We had some work done on the fiberglass about 6 weeks ago and drained half down in the process. The staining issue existed both before and after the drain /...

Hello all, I have been reading the forums here for a while but just now posting for the first time. Basically, we were having trouble with a pool company causing stains every week when they came out to shock. I fired them and am now back to doing it myself. We were having staining issues (10k...