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I used tablets all summer last year and I swear I tested cya pretty high at the end of the season and I was planning on partially draining. Upon opening today, I'm measuring <30ppm. How?? Am I measuring wrong?

All About Pools in Rowlett TX can get you 4 pack of 12% gallons for $16 but you have to order it. Same price per oz as home Depot. Have not tried it yet but I will soon.

I threw 2 - 3" trichlor pucks in a floater that had a few slivers of 2 more pucks left in it. Tested CYA today at 40 or 50, definitely 50 or less. There's no way those pucks added 20 ppm CYA so I maybe had some testing error to account for. I also put a cap on the skimmer I think may be...

Not sure this suggestion has been made but it would be cool to be able to take a photo as part of the logging function, I think this would be especially helpful for people doing SLAMs.

There is one spot of grass that seemed unusually green when we moved in which I suspect is under the path of the far skimmer line... I have a bucket out there now and the skimmer valve is set to 100% the other side. We'll see how it goes. Could this also account for higher than normal daily...

I have not checked. Totally possible though... I'll get a bucket going.

3 or 4 inches at most. Usually run the hose about 2 hours.

I'm not sure how though... My vacuum robot throws a fair bit of water out when its tail breaks the surface and I have to fill quite a bit of water weekly but have I really lost THAT much CYA? All other measurements well within spec that whole time. FC 6.5 CC 0 pH 7.6 TA 80 CH 330 CYA 30 CSI 0.03

So the wisdom of 1x for whole water to go through the filter is no longer the preferred minimum practice?

Yeah my CYA is 50 or so. I'm apprehensive about the pucks obviously, but my next trip isn't until September so maybe I'll have splashed out enough water to drop it down some by then!

Oh it was just bad timing, we were going to be out, I would have just threw pucks in a floater and prayed. They just happened to be coming into town so I thought I'd put em to work. I think my wife talked about having her friend learn how to take care of it too for next time...

I asked that they put 3/4 gal of bleach in daily, but they did not show up on the day they were supposed to, skipped a day of putting in anything, and left a day early... They have an indoor pool, I thought they would be on top of it. I had not looked at the filter before that, didn't mean to...

Had 1 ppm loss overnight the night I cleaned the filter, 0.5 cc in the morning and over last night I had zero loss and no CC in the morning. I wonder if the state of the filter was causing higher than normal daily loss... If I could get down to 1/2 gal of 10% per day, that'd be pretty nice.

We have 3 pack of 10% 128oz bottles. Last pack I got a week ago was 18155 date code, so pretty fresh. Seems to do the job better than 8.25%.

Ok wow. What a pain. Thanks for info