Very new to maintaining my pool and I've been educating myself on this site for a few weeks now. Many questions, but after replacing water (slowly by garden hoses over five days draining and refilling) to get my CYA level down in order to start the SLAM I notice my salt level dropped from 3400 to 2800 using the Taylor test kit. (My FC level also dropped from 15 to 1.6) I am focusing on balancing the pH and the CYA, is the salt level important for the maintainance portion of SLAM?