Recent content by Berggy

The pool company tests with a LaMotte WaterLink Express Professional system and I test with a LaMotte Color-Q Pro7 system. We never agree but we are very close. Every spring I have 6-13 cya and each pound brings it up 0.9. I just checked the jug and I am using the tricolor I wrote about...

Is this directed at me? ... if so you lost me. For 11 years I have kept FC @ ~0.5 and CYA @~40 ... dumping one quart of algae killer @ opening and one at closing and I burn ~18lbs of chlorine/season. Never had any algae issues.

1. I'll check the bottle when I get home .. just in case I made a chemical mistake. 2. My CYA levels never changed that I noticed ... prolly because I only use 2.5 jugs of New Water/Year = ~ 18lbs? 3. My only water change is from 2 back washes/year and the drain down to below the skimmer @ closing

Don't worry about the blonds ... I have three of them in the house ... and a lot more in the daycare, no issues ever. I'm not sure if it is the low level of chlorine or if the metals don't actually dissolve in the water. My guess it that it comes more from the algaecide and I never use the...

2001 - 2011 I kept the CYA between 30-40 and the FC between 0.4-0.6 ... worked great. We had a daycare at the house too, 8-12 kids in it all day every day. I used the 3" pucks in the skimmer for the first year or two then switched to a New Water Cycler 400 chlorinator ... set it and forget...

Which one are you using? I only use the G35 and it goes in a vessel ... this year I just left the vessel empty.

Cya-17 this morning Please point me to or explain organics.

OK... so two years ago the price of a g35 nature-2 cartridge went over $100 around here. This got me to thinking: whenever my chlorine drops to near zero the pool gets cloudy, so what is the nature-2 doing for me? Last year I got a g-35 for $80 and started reading about bbb pools. This year I...

Two possibilities: 1. As Jason said the water table is up, just raise the pool level up and wait a bit. For those with habitual floating liners, never drain the water down till a day or two after the rain storm to give the table time to settle down. 2. You have a leak. Find it and fix it then...

77 before the 8" of rain last week...64 on Thurs, 68 Fri, 73 yesterday, 75 right now.

Yeah... why do the worms come to my pool to die? For years I have held the winter cover on with aqua-blocks and in the spring I have 5Gallons of worms in the pool. So last year I went back to water bags, end to end right along the coping and this spring another 5 gal of worms. Had a combined...

Last year we had 2 for the season, they were the dog's best friends. She has been looking for them every day so far this year...walking around and around the edge checking the water.