My Cyanuric Acid was through the roof (I don't exactly know where it was originally because I didn't do a dilution test. Eventually I did), but after using 4 packets of this new product called Cyanuric Acid Reducer, it dropped down to around 35ppm. However, now no matter what I do, it will not hold chlorine. The pool was initially extremely cloudy since I hadn't put any chlorine in it for a while (in order to get the Cya reducer to work), but after using a bit of Tricholor shock (which increased my cya by a bit) and almost 30 gallons of liquid chlorine within 5 days, the pool became sparkling clear (VERY clear), but it will not hold chlorine for the life of me. In fact I stopped putting chlorine in it because I was wasting soooo much, and instead decided to do a 5 gallon bucket test to determine the chlorine demand. In my sample water, I've been keeping the chlorine at anywhere from 40 to 80ppm for the past 3 or 4 days and it's just not holding. I'm up to about 340ppm of chlorine so far (across 4 days), and it's dropping by about 20 ppm every 3 to 4 hours. I really don't know why that is. Somebody on these forums said, bacteria converts CYA to ammonia, so I thought maybe the CYA reducer does that too. I checked my pool and it's at about 4 to 6ppm of ammonia, but my sample 5 gallon water at this point, is at most 0.25ppm ammonia, and it's still not holding. What could it be and what can I do to get my chlorine to hold? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are my numbers -
FAC - 0
CC - 0
PH - 7.4
TA - 125
CH - 375
CYA - 50
Ammonia - 4ppm (maybe a little more)
Thank you so much
FAC - 0
CC - 0
PH - 7.4
TA - 125
CH - 375
CYA - 50
Ammonia - 4ppm (maybe a little more)
Thank you so much