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It was Leslie’s brand shock and had purchased 2 of the 50lb within 2 months. I did not know it would raise the CYA. I thought you had to add stabilizer. When they told me to keep putting in 9 lbs for 2 weeks and then they said 16 lbs because problem wasn’t getting better I started...

I have been working on doing a drop of 6 inches a day with refill for over 2 weeks before I decided to do slam. I can only drain that much at a time and we have a party tomorrow is reason I decided to try SLAm this week when it reached 80. I have been brushing morning an evening and algae...

So I started a SLAM 2 days ago and my CYA was high 80. It was at 150. What prompted me to look here is we had already gone through 75lb of shock since opening at end of May. I did not know shock would raise CYA. Anyways this is all new for me. We have been fighting algae since opening. I...

I am learning from this site how to keep my pool balanced. We had a really bad algae boom within 2 days pool went green. Bought green out from Leslie’s and it blued up but was cloudy. Thats when I found this site. Even though it was blue, green algae formed overnight. I scrub vacuum same...