Recent content by km33326

I have some good news! He finally showed up (dead, but intact) in the basket by the pump. I'm so glad he's out of there! I'm going to crank up my salt chlorinator for a couple days :-)

I've got an usual problem. I found a live mouse trapped in my skimmer basket today. Unfortunately, as I was trying to get him out he fell into the water and got sucked into the skimmer pipe. He was quite small so I figured he would eventually show up in the basket before the pump...

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Thanks mknauss. I have some good news. After running the filter for a while, my Ph is now around 7.6. However, my total alkalinity is now 200. The water is also very cloudy. I'm also concerned about the amount of PH up I had to add (12Lbs). Isn't this stuff toxic in high concentrations? Should...

My diamondbrite was a bit stained, primarily on the top half of the pool walls. I decided to do an acid wash. I drained the pool half way and applied a total of about 2 gallons of Muriatic acid, diluted 1:1 in water, using a watering can. It worked great. I refilled the pool and planned to use...