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i will when i get home but realize my chlorine use was consistently 6pmm and then one day was 18ppm and after that i see that the water WAS cloudy. if i didnt know the correct cya, i should have constant very high usage, not that the usage tripled from one day to the next. regarding effect on...

oh no! so i think i did it wrong. but it shouldnt make a difference, right? if anything my chlorine was too high, it should still kill the algae. but does anyone know the answer to the normal loss of chlorine rate and 35ppm?

hi, i have a 21k gallon pool, 60 cya and prone to mustard algae. so based on chart i try to keep my chlorine at about 10ppm. my pool was beautiful and crystal clear until one day i noticed tremendous chlorine loss - over the day i had to put in 18pmm of chlorine so it didnt drop below my...

I slammed to 28 this AM

i better change my signature to include my test kit. its the taylor k-2006 fas dpd. i was testing twice a day every day but then last few days weather on and off was so bad and there were thunderstorms when i was leaving to work or in the evening... so i think i missed some tests. but i tested...

that might be it. i only brush once a week maximum. i thought one time per week was the recommended. thank you.

If chlorine never dips below the recommended minimum (and is even much more than that) is it possible to get algae? because i got significant yellow streaking at the bottom of my pool and i brushed up clouds of yellow this morning and tested 1 CC, but i'm surprised because my chlorine levels...

i must have had algae when using so much chlorine past few weeks, because this wk, after completing SLAM at end of last week, my usage is more like 4. thank you for all your help. I didn't pick up on the algae because i was losing like 1ppm overnight and i thought 1 was still ok. but now, after...

i really think i completed it properly. i brought the level to 24ppm, brushed the pool, tested a few times a day and kept adding more chlroine as it dipped below 24ppm... day, night... kept testing till water was sparkling and clear. i am going to do another OCLT tonight to make sure.

during the day my pool is empty but in the evening my kids have tons of friends over. I thought it was the heavy bather load but then one cloudy rainy day the pool was empty and i still used that much. at some point i must have had some algae b/c i did lose chlorine overnight and i did shock...

i was using that amount and my pool was crystal clear and oclt came back fine. i will be doing one again tonight.

cya of 60 so i'm confused. if the more i put in the more i lose, how do i keep my FC from slipping below the minimum? i thought i'd just add more chlorine one time to get my morning levels higher so my evening levels would not be below recommended, but it didnt seem to work. i keep dipping below...

Will my pool always use the same amount of chlorine per day (barring changes in temperature, bather load and other external factors)? So for example, i typically have seen my pool use about 5-6 ppm of chlorine per day. so it starts at about 10 and falls to about 4.5-5ppm by evening. But when i...

i hope i'm not too late to add to this thread. so it seemed that while my chlorine use was high, it was possibly within the range of normal. the issue was that my FC levels should be between 7-9ppm for my cya of 60 and never drop less than 5 and adding 1 gallon of 12% chlorine, i kept losing at...

nothing in the pool, i did an overnight chlorine test a few night in a row. i have to read up more about the salt water generator option.