White Flakes!

[aceniza]

Hey all,
I started noticing white flakes from my returns. Last week, I uncovered my pool and there was some algae, I checked my omnilogic thing and it said check salt cell.
Salt was super low, PH was sky high, everything else was out of whack.
Got everything readjusted, filled the cell with MA for about an hour. CH has also been adjusted since the last test.
Also - the big jump in TA may or may not be because I mistook baking soda for calcium chloride

It's been about 5 days and I'm still getting flakes. Is that just residual calcium in the system? Or is this insane heat in North Texas just making everything more difficult to maintain?

 

[mknauss]

With that TA you will get scale flakes. Work the TA down to 100 or less and they should reduce.

 

[aceniza]

With that TA you will get scale flakes. Work the TA down to 100 or less and they should reduce.

thanks, I haven't tested yet but I did dump a gallon of MA and aerated up as suggested by the app. I will have to retest today after work

 

[mknauss]

I did dump a gallon of MA

Yikes. If that was 31.45%, you really dropped the pH. Do not do that again. Your heater will be destroyed.

 

[mgtfp]

filled the cell with MA for about an hour.

Did you use full strength MA without further dilution for that?