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Sorry for my delayed response Richard, just saw this now. Yes, it did, and it's been working beautifully since. CC's staying right around zero, and I'm able to keep a FC of 6-8 with just a modest daily chlorine addition. Given how much sun we've been having, I don't think it's unreasonable...

Here's the promised picture; pool looks crystal clear, CC hard to get exact, but I'm confident it's less than .5, so I'm officially completing my SLAM.

Well, I added a ton more chlorine last night (I did over shoot by about a gallon, but not too crazy), and FINALLY got the FC over 20, and the CC dropped tremendously. Here's my play-by-play in case it's helpful for other folks or anyone else wants to chime in with anything: 8:10pm Friday: FC...

Thanks Swampwoman! Now I understand your antifreeze comment. I've used the same pool company to close and open the pool the last 3 years, but I really have no clue what they did. My plan is to stop using the pucks and just go to bleach (except when I'm on vacation) when all this is said and...

Thanks! I definitely didn't add any antifreeze :) or non chlorine shock or anything else. I do still have my chlorinator running with some pucks in there, thinking that will only help somewhat, right? What do you think about going way above the pool math chlorine to try to blast my way to a...

Ok, the pool looks great. Unfortunately, even after i went ahead and added 6 more juss of bleach last night, my FC this morning is 1 and CC 3 (numbers were 3FC and 9CC before my last addition of bleach last night). Not sure how to proceed, as obviously my water doesn't look like the previous...

whew...added about 6 more bleach jugs (pool math said 4.7 but I overshot on purpose)...waited 15 min and just tested. Now have 6 FC and 9 CC. I only have 6 more jugs of bleach, should i add them all in there or wait until the morning???

ok; i just added 4 more jugs of bleach, yikes! my backyard smells like a chlorine factory. I did just brush the entire pool, too; i'll plan to retest in about an hour or so, does that make sense? I am crazy to be panicked about the amount of bleach I've added in total?

ok; i added 4 more jugs of chlorine...my back yard smells like a chlorine plant...i just brushed the entire pool, too. i'm going to recheck levels in about an hour, make sense? has anyone ever needed more than 10 jugs of 121oz of 8.3% concentrate chlorine to do this?

just retested in a different spot in the pool and now I got 5.5 FC, could it really be dropping that fast...

So added enough chlorine to get the ppm to 20 according to the calculator; not knowing how long to let the chlorine work around the pool until i measured, i gave it about 30 minutes and shockingly only came up with 7.5 FC. did i not wait long enough or could it have dissipated that quickly by...

OK, this will be my first SLAM; the levels page say FC of 20, so do I need to take it to that level or above that level? The math calc says i need almost 8 gallons of 6% bleach (I have 10 on standby to use from a Costco trip yesterday), does that sound right? Can I do the test in the evening...

OK, did the OCLT test. I had added 2 full gallons of bleach yesterday morning, which pool math said would bring the FC up to 4ppm, and also had the pool running all day (still with chlorine pucks in the chlorinator), so was surprised that my FC was 1.8ppm on my first test last night, and then I...

Yes, that was very helpful, thanks; i wish i would've seen them earlier before panicking! I did end up getting the guts removed and reassembled enough so that the pump is running again and the nature2 is essentially removed from the system. Continuing to read the forum, it looks like the OCLT...

So i took the nature2 cartridge out, saw that I couldn't run the system without it, so I decided to cut the nature 2 cartridge off and just leave the plug up top. I had no idea it would somehow affect the pressurization of the whole system, as now I think the pump won't prime and the system...

Yikes; so you think i should get rid of the nature2? And what else, do a SLAM?

OK, finally, here are test results: FC 0.4ppm CC 1.0ppm pH 7.4 TA 100 Hardness 450 CYA 50 Thoughts? Water is perfectly clear, but just a light green tint...attaching pics, too.

Thanks for the replies. Pretty sure the TA is in good shape, been running in the 80-100 range pretty consistently without much variation. I will indeed post full test results hopefully tomorrow (come on Amazon!!). I am using the Nature2 with a new cartridge this year, is that what you mean...

Thanks for the fast reply; I have been reading some of the links, and I currently only have the Taylor 2005 test kit, but just ordered the 2006 test kit. I lost my CYA test bottle, so I couldn't get that. However, when I was at the pool store this week they told me that my CYA was 0, so I...

Hi. Looking for some expert help...ever since pool opening this year (about 4 weeks ago now), I've been struggling with a green tint to my water. The water is perfectly clear and has no signs of algae that we can see. Have tested the water at the pool store multiple times for their advice...