Recent content by Sonny12687

The manifold was not replaced. In the above picture, you can see the worm gear clamp on the inner air bleeder. I, of course not knowing any better, assumed that was stock and supposed to be on there to connect it. The inner air bleeder on this slides in and out of the connection to the manifold...

For anyone interested or any others that may be having a similar issue - I have resolved the issue with the DE returning to the pool. After browsing some other forums, I was pointed in the direction of removing and checking the internal air bleeder (as shown in picture above). There was a small...

I'm pretty certain at this point that it is DE returning to the pool. Yesterday I took the filter apart again and cleaned. There was DE all over the top of the manifold and sitting on top of the grids (picture attached). It looked as though there was only some DE on the top half of the grids and...

TC - 8.0ppm FC - 8.0ppm PH - 8.0 Acid demand - 2 Alkalinity - 119ppm Hardness - 300ppm Stabilizer - 20ppm Dissolved Solids - 5,000 ppm Salt - 3,100 Test was done by local pool store yesterday. They provided me with muriatic acid and stabilizer to correct the PH and stabilizer levels. Yesterday...

If it is in fact dead algae, shouldn't it still go away after vacuuming up? Or are you suggesting each day, more algae is dying and I'm just seeing new dead algae? As for test results, I have only test strips on hand, will that suffice?

Want to provide as many details here as I can, I appreciate any help in advance - I recently moved into a house with a 20,000 gallon in ground salt water pool with a spa spillover/waterfall with a DE filter. I am having an issue with a very fine layer of dirt (for lack of a better word) on the...