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Hi, Can someone help me identify these worms? Are they just good old earthworms? They seemed to be quite happy and alive in the water when I extracted them from the pool pump. A couple years ago we came home from vacation to find animal remains in our pool. We had someone identify the bones as...

Indeed it was the missing TA. Once I entered that it recommended the proper amount of acid.

The pool Math app is recommending that I add 7.4oz of 20 baume acid to bring my pH to 7.5 from 8.6. This is obviously incorrect. See the attachment.

Passed yesterday. Now I am waiting for FC to drop to a good level for swimming. I am at 25ppm this morning. Based on the CYA chart I think I am shooting for 6-8. Can we swim at 25 with CYA around 80? I need to check the CYA but it was at 89 before I dumped some water. It is supposed to be...

And what do you consider low? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I guess whatever was/is growing is pretty much invisible because the water has been very clear. I noticed these tiny little green things that are probably from the trees nearby, right? (see below) I have been running my pump steady for a while at a low speed and then at a higher speed while...

Ok so I will continue to keep the chlorine up today. Either way, it is much better than the first day after SLAMing the night before. Went from 30+ down to 8 mid-day.

FC last night at 9:46pm: 37 This morning at 8:20am: 34 My chlorinator was off. We had some pretty heavy storms last night with lots of rain. Would that cause the chlorine to decrease? I know SLAM states no more than loss of 1ppm but I figure this is really close considering the amount of...

Morning test at 9:30am. This could have been earlier but the results look pretty good except the pH is low. It seems to be fluctuating from ~7 - 7.3 FC 6.9 CC .43 pH 6.9 CH 219 CYA - did not read this morning but previously 89 and I swapped some water yesterday. Last night's results at...

Well I guess I will be removing quite a bit more water in the future.

Drained and re-filled some water to try to reduce CYA a bit. I read that CYA tends to sit near the top of the water so turning off the bottom drain and dumping to waste a couple of inches from the skimmer should help. Will check CYA tomorrow. Applied the liquid chlorine via 8.25% bleach...

intheswim.com "pool shock" - Pool Shock Chemicals - In The Swim (68% Calcium Hypochlorite). Poolcalculator.com said to add 118oz to get to FC 22: - - - Updated - - - intheswim.com "pool shock" - http://www.intheswim.com/p/pool-shock (68% Calcium Hypochlorite). Poolcalculator.com said to...