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    Waterbugs appeared today, clear water, unable to maintain FC level

    Thank you, I slammed all day yesterday and I am now at 12.5 . My CC is at .5 and my water looks beautiful crystal clear! We have light rain today. I will maintain 12 FC until I can get clear overnight weather to perform an OCLT. I would like to do a filter clean again but that process takes...
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    Waterbugs appeared today, clear water, unable to maintain FC level

    I should also add we don't have any trichlor tabs in the inline feeder right now. Should I keep those out for the slam process or should we add some back in?
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    Waterbugs appeared today, clear water, unable to maintain FC level

    Thank you! I did get my Taylor test 1515 and my free chlorine was at 0.2 and combined chlorine at .6. Tonight I will do the slam process. Before I do the slam process I'm wondering if I need to increase my cya? When I did my cya test at the 30 PPM mark I could barely barely barely see a black...
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    Waterbugs appeared today, clear water, unable to maintain FC level

    Hello, I am a new pool owner to an older pool. I have been using the Taylor K-2005 test kit and have been consistently getting low or no FC. I shock the pool. The CYA seems to be in range. I am suspecting an invisible algae problem. My numbers this morning. FC - 0 (ordered the Taylor...