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That's sound advice. I have a lime green pool at the moment and 0.0 CC!!

I'm draining ~1/3 as we speak. Looks like heavy rain is coming in so I might cut it off if that starts. It's about there anyway and I'd almost miss that fantastic shade of algae green in my backyard! :mrgreen:

I see. So I'll need that to be sure I have gotten up to the very high FC levels that will be needed to kill the Yellow algae, as well as do the OCLT properly, right? Also, while we are fairly close to the water table my pool is concrete-plaster. It shouldn't float should it?

Thanks for the Hello! The 140 was just an estimate. The black dot disappeared a good 1/4 inch before the 100 line. I'll have to try the dilution trick. Just out of curiosity, does the FAS test do something that the DPD doesn't or is it just more accurate/precise?

So, I'm new to pool ownership and made what I now know to be a huge mistake. I have been using Tri-chlor as my sole source of chlorine. Well, it was all going fine until this week when I came home from a business trip and found my pool in terrible condition. Green and Yellow algae. I upgraded...