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    3rd SLAM in 2 months, what am I doing wrong?

    So...end of April: drained/refilled pool after AA treatment. Dropping the FC to 0 for the AA treatment uncovered an underlying algae issue with my pool store pool. Started first SLAM immediately, few days later pass all three criteria. Stop SLAM. Week later: Algae issue pops up again, I start...
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    How to defeat this

    So my pool is severely pitted, and now I’m coming down from my second SLAM in a month, and I have these spots appearing again. They do not brush off but they do go away with a SLAM and then return. A chlorine puck will make them disappear for a while too. My levels are 10.5 FC 0 CC 7.6 pH 80 TA...
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    New fill water and SLAM

    I just completed a successful asorbic acid treatment, but Polyquat couldn't keep algae away. I was planning to drain/refill the water to rid of metals anyways so now I have new fill water to SLAM. My numbers are: 2 FC 0 CC 7.2 pH 90 TA 230 CH 0 CYA Adding CYA in the skimmer basket and hope to...
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    Acsorbic Acid Treatment

    This is my first time posting, and I’m new to pool ownership as of September 2017. Until coming across this forum, I was (well, honestly, I still am, because waiting on testing kit to arrive) using Suncoast Multi-Purpose Chlorine tablets. My water looks great overall. After trying the vitamin C...