Recent content by keeghan2002

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    Muriatic acid not bringing down ph?

    PERFECT! Thank you so much for your replies. Went and got a OTO test and it said the ph was a little on the low side. The water was a bit green from before I put the acid in, and even though I had a few pucks of chlorine in the dispenser it was reading no chlorine at all on the OTO. So I...
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    Muriatic acid not bringing down ph?

    Stupid question.... what is fill water? I have the jet on the return pointed down and to the side a bit so it makes the pool circulate. You can see the water right above the jet move a tiny bit but it doesn't splash, bubble or anything like that. I have only been running the pump for 6 hours...
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    Muriatic acid not bringing down ph?

    Hi, test strips from Walmart (HTH brand I believe). Probably not the greatest lol. It has come down a little according to the stripes but not enough yet.
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    Muriatic acid not bringing down ph?

    Hey I'm pretty new to pools. We have just a cheapy Intex pool that holds about 8,300 gallons of water. Since we put it up we have not been able to get the PH to come down. We used an entire 3kg thing of PH reducer that had NO effect at all. After looking at lots of posts on here and learning...