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Thanks for the replies. I went ahead and tied off some nylons with a little CYA to bump it up. Then will add a little Borax and acid this weekend. Need to vaccum it good first before I post a pic, Butterfly. ;)

to a nice sparkly pool. :-D We brought it up to shock level in October, covered and have done nothing to it since. Now if the water temp wasn't 60 degrees, it'd be perfect to jump right in. lol Here's my opening numbers: FC-5.5 CC- 0 ph- 7.3 TA- 80 CYA- 40 Borates- 30 Should I go ahead and...

I used my leaf net to get the clumps out and smashed them up with my fingers. It's only been an hour+ but I went ahead and checked the pH & its 7.8 so I'll check it again after dinner and it it doesn't go any higher, I'll let the kiddo swim. Thanks. :)

Well I went ahead and added the borax & MA. It of course made the water a milky color and there are some 'balls' of borax on the pool floor, how long till that dissolves? I'm going to brush again later to see if I can break them up. How long before swimming after adding the borax & MA?

Yep, planning on using Borax & MA to add borates. Right now I'm more concerned about the water being slightly cloudy, not really sparkly like it was. I've been turning the return jet straight up to aerate during the day, could it be that the slight cloudiness is from not having good filtration...

ok, so I have my TA down to 80, the ph is 7.2 so waiting on that to come back up. I just walked out on the deck for something and noticed that the water looks a tiny bit cloudy. What's up with that? I tested and got these numbers, the FC was a bit low, I think. FC 2.5 CC 0 pH 7.2 TA 80 CYA 35

Thanks for the links. After aerating & splashing around in there today, we got the TA down to 100 and the pH back up to 7.4 when I checked it a few minutes ago.

Thanks Waterbear. I found that right after I posted. I put in a dose of muriatic acid this morning to bring down ph and turned the eye on the returns straight up to break the water. We've been in splashing around today too. Going to test again after a few hours.

cool. thanks. :) Guess I'll go work on that TA now. lol

You mean if I don't adjust the TA first?

I read the sticky about adding borates about 4-5 times, printed it out and I'm ready to add them. However, I read in the thread that the TA should be around 70-90 and mine is a little higher. I guess I just want to double check that I need to adjust the numbers some before I start adding...

Yep, 40 + 10. Ok, will test in a few more days. Thanks. :)

After my Baq-to-Chlorine conversion a couple of weeks ago, I used the pool calculator to add enough CYA to bring it up to 40. I tested after 5 days and got a reading of 30 using the TF test kit. So I used the calculator again to add enough to 40 and tested just now and got 30 still, it's been 5...

I'm having the issues as well. Not able to distinguish the various shades of yellow yet so I've been double checking my results with the drops. Last night the yellow was a bright yellow which would indicate between 3-4 on the OTO test and when I tested with the drops, it was 2, so I had to add...

Thanks! My daughter is thrilled to be able to get in today.