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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    One of my dogs tend to drink from the pool often, despite my best efforts to prevent so I think I should hold off on borates for now
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    Great, so does that I mean my pool may need more acid treatments to keep that pH on the lower end around 7.2
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    Definitely over 0.30, looks like 0.32.
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    OK -- the water fall has no effect on TA. Adding acid does when lowering the pH. But I suspect your fill water has high TA. So you are adding TA when you add fill water. ah yah, I got confused with Ph aeration. I did add a little bit of fill water today. That was the method I used for CH, yes...
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    My CSI reads at -0.29
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    I think the TA will naturally come down with my waterfall. I do all my tests with the Taylor2006 kit
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    Ah, I see the CSI setting. I’ll start doing that, thanks
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    Yes I’m using Pool Math, but I don’t know what tracking CSI means. I only see FC, pH, TA, CH, CYA, and Salt. I haven’t been keeping logs, but I can start. Regarding CYA, my target is 70-80. 70 is on the low end of ideal. And with the amount of sun I get, what’s the harm in pushing it to the...
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    Can’t get rid of this calcium

    I completely cleaned out my SWG from calcium build up - it was pretty bad, but now is spotless. It’s been clean for a couple weeks now. I’ve balanced my pool and lowered pH. Just last night I got the ph down to 7.2. Do I just need to give it more time and try to keep the ph at that level and...
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    New here: what is this stuff? Should I be concerned?

    Picked up the cleaning kit (part 520670) this morning, acid washed it this afternoon, took about 45mins and a few cycles. Good as new now! It’s interesting - on the front of the IC40 unit it says to acid wash every 3 months. Never noticed that before. No more white flakes in the pool!
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    New here: what is this stuff? Should I be concerned?

    That’s an expensive mistake. Luckily my dumbest mistake so far is putting a check valve on backwards.
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    New here: what is this stuff? Should I be concerned?

    Yeah, thanks. I looked that up earlier and my local Leslie’s has it in stock. I’m not dumb enough to stick the entire SWG in acid water, fortunately.
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    New here: what is this stuff? Should I be concerned?

    Now that I’m taking care of it myself, that won’t be a problem.