thefloatqueen
Bronze Supporter
My pool isn't good enough for them, lol! Maybe they’re fighting with the neighbor’s ducks and they’ll make up soon and chill in their pool?
0 CYA and 0 FC. Need advise
- Thread starter LovinPoolLife
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I’ve been using the 3” Bioguard silk tabs since we got the pool in fall of 2016. Last yr I decided to only put maybe 2 a week in and had very high PH and very high alkalinity. Now I know why lol. I have a $250 bucket of chlorine tablets to try to sell now lol.
Lake Placid
In The Industry
- May 27, 2021
- 665
- Pool Size
- 17000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
Some poor person on FB marketplace will snap that up. You’re on SWG now correct?
If SWG is salt water generator, then no. We have a chlorine pool. I’d switch to SWG but we’d like to move out of IL in the next couple of yrs, so I don’t want to invest any money into something new here.
Lake Placid
In The Industry
- May 27, 2021
- 665
- Pool Size
- 17000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
To clear up any confusion, a salt water pool is a chlorine pool…the SWG just makes chlorine for you through a reaction in the cell. I was asking because you could keep the pucks if you go out of town or need them for occasional use when you can’t add liquid. But you also have listed a nature 2 fusion, which could be either a SWG or trichlor feeder depending on which specific model you have.
- Jun 1, 2018
- 13,775
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Keep some pucks for when you go on vacation- sell the rest if you don’t wanna look at them/store them for the rest of your life lol 
Its ok to use them occasionally when you need/can afford the effects of all the things they do but they are insidious pretty quickly if used for daily chlorination.
Here’s roughly what each dissolved 8oz tab does to your pool
Those particular tabs also have a tiny bit of borates in them so you may want to test your borate levels as that affects how much acid you need to use to lower ph.
Its ok to use them occasionally when you need/can afford the effects of all the things they do but they are insidious pretty quickly if used for daily chlorination.
Here’s roughly what each dissolved 8oz tab does to your pool
Those particular tabs also have a tiny bit of borates in them so you may want to test your borate levels as that affects how much acid you need to use to lower ph.
Lake Placid
In The Industry
- May 27, 2021
- 665
- Pool Size
- 17000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
If they’re the silk guard complete, they’ve got copper in them too. If that’s the case…Imo sell the whole batch…and if you HAVE to have tabs at some point, pickup a few that are just pure trichlor.
dBsooner
Gold Supporter
I was going to say that’s part of being “Pool Stored”, but @Lake Placid beat me to it with a far more detailed explanation. I was going to go the simpler route of the higher they keep your TA, the more volatile your pH will be causing them to be able to try to sell you pH+ and pH-, and if they are really good at sales, Alkalinity down and up. lol!
Pool stores care about making money. Off you. They don’t care about your pool. If they don’t keep you coming back for more stuff, they lose money. If you stop coming all together, they lose a lot of money. That’s why they all offer free water tests. They get you in the door. I’d venture to say every member here has a Pool Stored story. Most of their own experience. If they don’t have their own, they’ll tell you thousands of others from the years here.
TFP cares nothing about your money. Sure, they like donations (aka supporters) to help keep the site running. But it’s not required. And TFTestKits IS NOT affiliated with TFP. They have a common name, but are two entirely seperate entities. We recommend TFT kits because they are the best you can get for the money, sized to how we do things and include everything you need to maintain your pool Trouble Free.
There’s one member here that literally stood outside the pool store and handed out cards to TFTestKits.net and mentioned TFP to people. Don’t know how long that lasted, or if it was even real… but sounds like a good story.
You’ll see, your TF100 will come with cards. lol.
dBsooner
Gold Supporter
Maybe she likes the green tint copper can do to blonde hair? Or the staining it can do to pool surfaces.
JK! Copper is terrible! One of my pool stored stories involves a local mom and pops store trying to convince me their $40 bottle of algaecide was what I needed and that I had zero reason to worry about my wife’s bleach blonde hair. I asked them MANY times. Gave them so many outs. But they didn’t budge. I’m sure they were hoping I’d bite and then they could sell me sequestering agents.
I am hoping my kit comes today. I really want my crystal clear water back, but and that’s a major BUT with properly balanced water! I’m nervous to start this new journey of not just using the stuff I’ve been used to for 7 seasons, only because it’s a new learning curve. However, I am eager to ditch pool store stuff that has built up over time, creating the issue I am now dealing with. Plus their method has taken yrs off of my beautiful liner.I was going to say that’s part of being “Pool Stored”, but @Lake Placid beat me to it with a far more detailed explanation. I was going to go the simpler route of the higher they keep your TA, the more volatile your pH will be causing them to be able to try to sell you pH+ and pH-, and if they are really good at sales, Alkalinity down and up. lol!
Pool stores care about making money. Off you. They don’t care about your pool. If they don’t keep you coming back for more stuff, they lose money. If you stop coming all together, they lose a lot of money. That’s why they all offer free water tests. They get you in the door. I’d venture to say every member here has a Pool Stored story. Most of their own experience. If they don’t have their own, they’ll tell you thousands of others from the years here.
TFP cares nothing about your money. Sure, they like donations (aka supporters) to help keep the site running. But it’s not required. And TFTestKits IS NOT affiliated with TFP. They have a common name, but are two entirely seperate entities. We recommend his kits because they are the best you can get for the money and include everything you need to maintain your pool Trouble Free.
There’s one member here that literally stood outside the pool store and handed out cards to TFTestKits.net and mentioned TFP to people. Don’t know how long that lasted, or if it was even real… but sounds like a good story.
Yeah, but we got you. Lean on us at anytime. We have folks at the ready around the clock. Plus.
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YAY it arrived today! Now to figure out how to use itEverything is wet inside the kit though, but not a big deal. Could be moisture buildup from diff temps during travel.
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- Feb 6, 2015
- 6,166
- Pool Size
- 12300
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
It’s not just the card that’s wet. It’s the bottles and PH test reader as well. The R-0013 is down a little, the R-0007 is only 1/2 full and the R-0010 is also down a little. I had this kit on my kitchen counter to look at it when I got it and also had the wet card on the counter. Not sure if these are toxic but I just scrubbed the heck out of my counters for safe measure.
- Feb 6, 2015
- 6,166
- Pool Size
- 12300
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- CircuPool RJ-45 Plus
Thank you.
Ok so I just did a FC test and it was 3.5 and then I added the 5 drops of R-0003 and it stayed clear for the CC. So that means I don’t have any. Is that a good thing?
- Mar 5, 2020
- 3,073
- Pool Size
- 66000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Astral Viron V35
That's great. Means you truly got rid of the Ammonia. FC is holding and no CC.