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I have a leak so need to replace the connector on my hayward cartridge filter output. I found the reference to part cx900k which are all $20 and up (leslies is nearer $40!). Same thing at lowes is much cheaper, but is it the same? See...

Thanks Jason. All I've added since 'opening' the pool is 8.25% bleach from the local store. I messed up a few times only raising FC to ~10, and it wasn't enough. Finally read about SLAM and after keeping FC ~25 for 3 days the algae has all gone and have no overnight loss. Overnight with spa...

I SLAM'd with a lot of bleach because CYA was 50ish. Got that done until no overnight loss of chlorine. Then I saw that CYA had crept up to 55, time to reduce it. I dumped water and refilled - hard to say how much but maybe 1/6 pool. Now I see CYA ~43. I'm assuming that's ok, so on to the next...