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In the last couple of weeks I have noticed some water forming on the tarp at the side of my pool. At first I just thought it was there from when I cleaned the filter, but it didn't dry up and the pool started losing its level a little more than just normal evaporation. Now the ground is wet...

So far so good. The water is pretty cloudy now but it's not green anymore? What does the cloudy water mean? Do I continue at shock level until the cloudiness goes away?

I have another question on how I should be running my pump during all this. I have the skimmer that mounts on the top rail of the pool with a hose on the bottom of the skimmer that attaches to the port about 1/3 the way down the side of th pool wall. If I don't use the skimmer part I can just...

I've decided to keep my FC at around 30 for a while and see what happens. I cleaned the filter this morning and there was a lot of algae in it. Throughout today it looks like the dark green has changed to a lighter green. Hopefully it is starting to work. As far as the circulation its as...

Ok I just tested the CYA and it showed 60 when the black dot dissapeared. But I was told that the algae in the water would cause the reading to be a little high. I have been running the FC at least over 20 anyway. It only dropped to about 15 once and I put it back up. I have a feeling my...

The CYA tested at about 40 before I started shocking the pool.

Okay I'm on my 3rd day now of the pool being at shock level and the color is still the same shade of green. I'm getting worried that I'm going to have to drain my pool. I have been brushing it often and constantly checking the FC level and keeping it above 15 but no results. Someone told me...

I'm using Leslie's Total Pool Care DPD test kit. I use 5 drop of R-001 and 5 drops of R-002 but it reads too high because my reader only goes as high as 5 for FC. That is why I diluted it with purified water. The reason I was messing up is because I kept forgetting to put the 5 drops of R-002...

Ok have an algae problem and I read the post on how to take care of it. I went out and bought a whole bunch of bleach and some dry acid. I lowerd my ph to about 7.4 before adding the bleach to get it to shock level. I put 3 gallons of bleach in which is what it said would get me to a fc level...

The kids have been wanting to go swimming. I found somewhere that said that I could dilute my test sample and multiply so I took 1/4 cup pool water and 1/2 cup purified water and tested it. It showed about 4 ppm which means the pool should be around 12 or so right? This is safe to swim in...

I just realized the kit that I purchased only tests FC up to 5ppm. Is there another viewer I can get? I don't have to buy another test kit right?

So when I have my SWG installed do I still need to check it every night? How do I adjust the FC level with and SWG? Do I just run it longer? Thanks for all your help by the way.

I put 8 lbs of CYA powder from Leslies in my skimmer in at 3 different times. I mixed it up in a bucket of warm water as it said on the bucket before I put it in the skimmer. It seemed to bog down the pump a little but it all went through ok. It hasn't quite dissolved yet but the water...

Ok I finally got a proper test kit. Some of th results were similar to the strips except for the TA. I definately don't have any chlorine still and it looks like I don't have any CYA. Is that why my chlorine won't keep? I'm hoping I did the CYA correctly. I did 7ml of water and 7 ml of CYA...

Still can't get my FC level to stay up even after shocking Merged threads for history. Butterfly Hello We have had our new AG pool installed now for about a week and I can't seem to get my FC level to stay up. Someone suggested I shock the pool so I used 4 - 1.5 gallon bottles of bleach in...