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Thank you! I didn't even realize I had purchased the wrong thing. You are right, my original bottle was R-0004 and the one I just bought is R-0014. I have one of the small testers around somewhere, I will recheck it with that and see what I get.:lovetfp:

Thanks for your replies. Here are a couple of pictures of the reading I'm getting. I don't know where it lands on the scale. I tried to do the acid and base demand tests to see what happened with my color. When I started adding drops for the acid demand it immediately got pink like a high pH and...

We just switched to a salt water system a few weeks ago and I thought I had all my numbers in line with the recommended levels, but I started getting a pH reading that I wasn't sure of. It was a dark orange that didn't match anything on the scale. I rolled with it for a few days, but then did a...

Same thing here. Walmart reduced the concentration of their Great Value bleach from 8.25% to 6%, but the price stayed the same. I noticed yesterday though that they also had other gallons of Great Value bleach labeled "Cleaning Bleach" instead of "Concentrated". They were also 6% but were...

Thank you Texas Splash. I went out and retested my CYA. By far, that is the hardest test to do and feel like I get a good reading. While I was out there I repoured and read the test a number of times. I feel like I pretty consistently got 35ppm. At 40 the dot was very faint but if I looked...

CYA 30 FC 18.5 CC 0 PH 7.4 before starting SLAM ALK 70 I've been searching and searching the forum about cloudy pools that wouldn't clear up, but I haven't found a direct answer to my question. If it's out there and I missed it I'm sorry for starting the new thread. We always open to a green...

I'm still doing a SLAM and trying to get the pool clear. My chlorine held overnight, but the water is still really cloudy. I still backwash out sand each time and get a decent amount of sand in the sightglass. Today we finally had opportunity to take the filter apart and inspect the laterals...

Sorry for the delay. Right now our water is milky green. I'm in the middle of a SLAM. We just opened the pool and it was full of algae like never before. We replaced our worn out tarp style pool cover with a mesh safety cover, and for some reason we seemed to get more algae this season. It's not...

Hi Kim. Thanks for your reply. We did use great care not to get sand down the center pipe. The filter came with a little cardboard deflector that did a good job, however, we didn't check the laterals before filling it. We looked at them, but we didn't check to make sure they were connected well...

We developed a metal staining problem a few years ago that was covering our liner. I'm pretty sure our issue came from using an algaecide that had copper in it. We were new pool owners and in a cycle of non-stop algae and trying whatever the pool store recommended. We don't have an SWG, so I'm...

We just replaced our Hayward S210T 200# sand filter with a larger Hayward S244T 300# sand filter. The old filter cracked and we were told it was under-sized for our pool and that a larger filter would clear the pool more quickly when it got cloudy, etc. We just got the new filter all setup and...

Thanks for the replies. It's about 10-15 pucks in a large 5 gallon bucket. If I keep the lid off any ideas on where to put the bucket? Where it is currently they would get rainwater on them.

Hi all. I have some old trichlor pucks I was hanging on to for vacations, etc. They were stored under a deck area in what I thought was a tightly sealed bucket, but I found they had gotten wet inside the bucket. The gas these things are putting off is knock you down strong. I took the bucket...

UPDATE: Thanks again to everyone who helped with this! The morning after adding the Polyquat my PH test was back on track. It no longer turned purple or continued to darken within seconds. It held steady at 7.2. I still tested positive for the CC's, but the reading came down from 1 to 0.5 or...

Thanks Patrick_B. That's how I was feeling since it wasn't there any length of time, but wanted to make sure.

I can't believe this but I just walked out to put our solar cover on and a chipmunk was floating in the water! He couldn't have been there long. A couple of hours maybe. (Poor little guy. I tried to revive him.) So now that that has happened do I have to bring FC back up to SLAM level. This is...

Thanks JVTrain...will do! I'm excited to clear up those stains and enjoy a sparkling pool. This is my first summer since finding TFP and I look forward to great pool year!

That's what I'm thinking Patrick_B. As I've continued testing the rest of the day and getting varying results, it's the only explanation that makes sense.

Thanks everyone for your replies!:sun: I just tested again and my PH test is holding longer at 7.4. It stills drifts up to 8.0, but more slowly, say after 40 seconds. The CC's are down to 0.5 now. I'm hoping that by morning it will be back on track again and it's just a strange reaction to the...

I found this link where something similar happened http://www.troublefreepool.com/archive/index.php/t-16780.html. Her PH test was responding like mine where it would show 7.4 for a second and then turn dark magenta. Someone suggested she add a drop of R-0007 before the phenol red to see if that...

Thank you JVTrain. That's interesting that they experienced something similar. I'm stumped since my readings this morning were good and now the PH is really high and I have CC's again. I'm not sure if I need to start my SLAM all over again now by lowering the PH and then SLAMing for the CC's...

Thanks so much for your reply Jason. I just tested the FC level again. I normally use two scoops of R-0870, but used four this time and re-tested. I got the same results. FC 6.5 CC 1 (don't know how) PH Turned light orange at first then within seconds continued to darken until it was...

Hi all! I've been SLAMing for about 9 days and preparaing to address metal stains in my pool after that. Today I passed the OCLT, had <0.5ppm CC, and the water is clear. These were my readings at 10am. Water Temp 70 FC 11 CC 0 PH 7.4 TA 80 CYA 20 (I'm not sure that reading is correct though...