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Those are current test results before MA was added. pH is now 7.4 and all others pretty much the same. We use liquid chlorine with no other additives besides MA to control pH and baking soda to increase TA from 40 to 60. We don’t go to the pool store for anything. Thanks.

South of Dallas by about 30 minutes. This plaster is barely 1 year old and the pool is barely 2 years old. I had a bad CH issue with the first plaster (when pool was new) where it got into the 500’s relatively quickly and stayed there until the new plaster was done.

We live in north Texas. The pool sits in about 1’ black clay then about 2’ of sand then the bottom is celiche. When they were digging the pool it appeared the whole lot was raised by the home builder back years ago using sand. They’ve already drained and filled it once when they replaced the...

Tested the fill water and it’s 140ppm.

When I do drain it, what’s a good method for getting the scale off the walls without doing an acid wash? I’ve called all the local pool companies and none are taking on new jobs right now as they’re all booked up doing repairs from our bad winter storm and existing customers.

FC 6.5 CC 0 pH 8.2 TA 60 CH 1280 CYA <30 CH is way high so my only option is to drain 85% of the water (according to PoolMath)? With CH being so high and CC being zero, it’s safe to say its Wife blindly puts in chlorine and MA so those numbers are off. Thanks.

This sounds like it may be my issue. I have a constant onslaught of brown dirt blowing in the pool. “Brown cloudy stains are often caused by calcium carbonate capturing either dirt, metals or copper as it forms its crystalline lattice structure. Calcium can appear in the form of a thin calcium...

Unfortunately that page has no pics so doesn’t help me but thanks anyways! Nothing has copper that has been in or pertains to the pool. The grit is all gone. I never drained it and never figured out what it was but it’s all gone on it’s own. I can scrub a small area pretty hard quite a bit and...

It definitely stays on, even using a stainless steel brush. I’ve brushed it dozens of times and it won’t budge. I forgot to add the pH got really high for quite a while during and after our big freeze we had this year.

All readings are good but CH is on the higher side but not ridiculous. CC is 0. Can I have algae and have a CC of zero?

Then I have this white buildup on the waterfall rocks. Some of it appears to be calcium buildup but some is glossy, almost sponge-like in appearance, but very firm and unable to be easily scraped off. Is this calcium?

Does this look like yellow mustard algae or calcium scaling? It’s on the walls and some on the bottom.