Recent content by TexCin

Thanks to all for your suggestions...I'm on my way next door to borrow a vit c tab. I also posted this in the Algae part of the forum just to make sure its not algae, but this sounds like a consensus here...I'll try the vit c and then the AA. Thanks again!

I posted this in another section but didn't get anybody who recognized it. I haven't ever battled algae (well once had mustard algae after a hurricane but it went away with yellow out and hasn't come back). Does this look like algae? I thought you could tell if it was algae because it would...

OMG! I definitely feel right at home here....dog lovers and pool owners in one place! I have 4 yappie dogs and two will jump in on their own. One of them (the white one in the picture) will go outside and swim by herself when its hot, even though we have told her not to swim alone and posted...

Wow! Thanks for the chem/math lesson...I am a dud at both. I have a gunite pool, but am still concerned about draining too much at once so I am sticking to the 5 day plan and am 1/5 of the way there! My CYA started out at 100, but until I receive my order on new (refill) reagents for my test...

Thanks for reading and suggesting...I am going with the partial replacement over the course of 5 days...I figured out how much I had to take out today and then over the next 4 days. Hopefully I'll see levels closer to 40 when I'm done. Thanks again!

My IG gunite pool has gray marks in several place, the worst being in the spa. You can't feel anything if you touch them, but they are unsightly. I've attached a picture....any thoughts on what this is and how to get rid of would be appreciated. Cindy

I've had my IG pool for about 5 years. in 2006 I discovered the other forum and the BBB method which worked fantastic. Due to a variety of issues which included an accident which left my dad with a traumatic brain injury, commuting between Texas and Arkansas every other weekend for several...