Recent content by magicclaw

Yeah I did a fair bit of additional reading yesterday and learned more about the boatman / backswimmer relationship and realized we have some of both. We definitely are not saving them anymore. They are marked for death lol. Or at least eradication. My OCLT result didn’t indicate a particularly...

So, if anything, my CYA levels are lower. I hate the CYA test because of the subjectivity of ambient lighting affecting how well the little dot can be seen. But I’m pretty sure my reading came up at roughly 50ppm now, down from 60ppm previously. I now have FC up to the upper bounds of the...

Definitely not springtails. I just fished one out and took a photo with my phone. Short of getting out my “big camera” with a macro lens, this is probably about the best close-up photo I could get.

I will do another CYA check. It generally doesn’t fluctuate much so I stopped testing it as regularly. If anything it tends to go down as I occasionally overfill the pool when doing refills ;) I will do an OCLT tonight as well. I just put in some more chlorine that should get me up to around...

So I feel like I’m just talking to myself / spamming; sorry. I don’t mean to be overly verbose. I just figure I will keep this up to date though pending any input/feedback from the forum members. My wife started our pool robot on a cleaning cycle and I went ahead and manually set the pump to...

Okay. My wife is now in agreement that they are not dragonfly larvae/nymphs and feeling somewhat silly for having spent all that time “saving” them yesterday lol. So my question now is more along the lines of…why are we having this explosion? The pool looks/seems clear. We keep the chemistry...

I have these larvae or bugs in my water. My wife is convinced they are a nymph/larval stage of dragonflies and rescued a ton of them yesterday to transplant to a nearby pond. I’m concerned about (a) what they actually are (if dragonfly or not) and (b) how/why they are suddenly growing in number...