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I'll check that right now. It has been more than 48 hours.

Quick question, should I leave my ladybug vac running or should I only vacuum manually?

You know, I thought about doing that... so maybe I check every hour or 2 during the day and adjust the bleach. I think I'll try that. Ok! I shall return with an update.

I've attached a surface picture, a look down into the water that shows lots of organic floaty stuff, and a picture of the water flowing back in looking cloudy and dirty. The water flowing in filthy is what led me to vacuum to waste prior to my original post here. It's at 12ppm FC at the moment...

I have valves for shut off on both the outgoing hose and inlet hose. I turn off the inlet valve and open the cap on the back of my filter housing. That way the water flows out instead of back in. I have attached pictures of my set up. I close the valve on the right and open the hole on the back...

Oh ok, I see. I thought vacuuming to waste with a cartridge filter meant vacuuming with it not flowing back into the pool but out through a waste hose. I did figure out through my wanderings of the internet that backwashing is not done with a cartridge filter. That was an aha moment for me. Who...

I waited until after 9pm to do the last water test and add bleach thanks to your post ? Fingers crossed for tomorrow. I didn't notice much difference in color today so I'm hoping maybe it'll be a lighter shade of green tomorrow.

This is extremely reassuring to know the dropping numbers are part of the process. I thought I was messing something up because I couldn't keep my numbers up! Should I be vacuuming to waste or is it ok to let my cartridge filter do the work? Should I be hosing my filter down regularly during...

CC is at 1.5. Turned pink and took 3 drops to bring back to clear.

Not very well. Last night about 9pm I got it up to 12 and this morning it was down to 4.5. I then brought it back up to 12 around 10am and just checked it now at 11:15 and it's down to 8.

Awesome! Wish me luck, I'll be back in a bit. ?

Alright, here we go... FC 0.5ppm PH 8.2 or over TA 110 CH 150 CYA - the dot did not disappear at all These are terrible results. What do I even fix first?

I'm ready you guys!! My XL TF-100 arrived today. Please school me, I'm ready to learn!

Probably why I couldn't get the SLAM method to ever work. I'm seriously such a newb. :LOL:

Ok, I'm on it! Is the TF-100 sold in stores anywhere?

Thank you for the warm welcome! I've been using this test kit by Chemtel. (Picture attached) Not sure how good it is but I'll certainly look up the TF-100 to replace it if necessary. I've also attached the test results in picture form. It reads to me that chlorine is around the 3.0, maybe a...

This is my third year as a pool owner and I have no idea how to get my pool clean this time. My pool was green a couple days after removing the winter cover. I used algaecide and then attempted to follow SLAM. My results were a weird light sludge on the pool bottom, cloudy with floating...