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Oh, and when I test with the little combined chlorine/ph test that comes in the blue box (is that the OTO test?), it turns a light yellow (matching somewhere between the 1 and 2 gradations), so there must be SOME chlorine. Unless I just don't get it...

My wife put in a gallon of bleach. Two hours later she tested it - after adding the powder, no color change (to pink), so she set it aside. 30 minutes later she happened to notice it still had water in it, but the water had turned pink. She used the drops and counted 8 - 4ppm. Is that a...

It looks great, and CYA 30, ph 7.5, 0.0 CC, TA 100. Chlorine is burning off faster than we understand. We test at 8AM and the water doesn't even turn pink - so we add a gallon of 8.25% bleach and by noon, we're down to 1ppm or less again. The filters are brand new as of last week, and...

The pool passed the OCLT - 12 PPM at dark, 12 PPM at dawn before sunup. 0.5 CC or less (it barely turned pink at all, but one drop made it clear). No measurable CYA. Per pool math I've added 50 oz of CYA by weight in some white tube socks. I'll also put in fresh (new) filters this morning...

Signature added. Sorry about that. I thought I had made one, but I guess not. The liner seems to be attached to the stairs with a plastic strip of some sort, not really sure exactly. We don't have any lights or other breaks in the liner other than skimmer, two returns and the bottom drains...

I have not tried that yet, but will tonight. Thank you!

So the pool is super clear blue now, and has been for two days. We're not getting any more Baquagoo dropping out and the filter pressures are back down in the normal range when we wash them (7psi when clean). However, the FC isn't stabilizing. We're testing 2x per day now, bumping it up to 15...

Hi, and thanks. I have a four cartridge rainbow filter. It doesn't have a bypass, but I could just take out the filter cartridges and it would just pump water around. I've been scooping the goop off the top with a net skimmer on a pole and emptying the skimmer basket. It seems to be making...

It turned blue today and seems to be getting more clear (I can see the bottom, yay).

Thanks for the reply. I don't know. I can try... I've only done the pool thing for a couple of years and everything prior was baquacil branded stuff. Do I use straight bleach or diluted? If diluted, what kind of ratio? Thanks!

The water is a lot more blue and I'm skimming a lot of green floating junk off the top. I've added bleach as needed. My filter pressure is high, at 7 psi with a fresh filter, after rinsing like I normally do, can't get it below 15 to start and then it gets around 20 quickly. I think the...

What's the criticality of the PH? Mine was a little high when I started. I started last night - new cartridge filters, about 3 gallons of bleach. It was nearly dark, so no good pictures. Tested FC this morning and got 3.5 (7 drops to clear pink). Added more chlorine before work. Got clumps...

Hi, I'm in Vermont and the weather is starting to turn toward summer. We're about to convert our pool to chlorine from Baquacil. I posted a quick intro in the new person forum, but the short version is that we are first time pool owners, have gone two years with Baquacil, fought cloudiness...

Thanks for the kind greetings.

Hi. I wanted to poke my head in and say "hi" and thank you for the site. We've got a small pool that we put in two seasons ago using Baquacil. It is our first pool, so we don't have much experience, and were lured in by the low maintenance aspect of this option. We weren't clear on how much...