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    Pool failed OCLT but no signs of algae

    My pool looks fine and I don't have any algae anywhere (cleaned out lights and ladders recently) but I tend to do the OCLT weekly and I've noticed the past 2 weeks I have a loss of 1FC in 6 hours overnight. Can bugs and leaves getting into the pool during the night be enough to fail the OCLT...
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    Algae from pool fountains

    My pool has 4 fountains in the pool deck which rarely get used unless the kids decide to turn them on, possibly once a week or less. I never really gave it much thought until yesterday when they turned them on and they seemed to cause some cloudy water plumes initially in the pool. My question...
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    Green pool when returning home from work today

    The background: I began running the pump 4 hours a day about 3 weeks ago and adding liquid chlorine to it around the same time, at this point the pool temp was around 50 and the SWG wouldn't make FC. Initially the CYA reading was between 30 and 40, PH was 7.4 and FC 0 and CC were 0 using the...
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    Bubbles coming from returns when SWG is on

    I've had the SWG turned off for the past week and a half during my SLAM process, now that it's over I turned the SWG back on at 25%. Tonight I noticed tiny bubbles coming from the returns in the with the pool light on, small enough that I initially thought they were debris passing through the...
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    Pool pump/filter flow problems

    I moved into a house last year that has an in ground pool, the first pool I've owned so I am new to pool care and feeding. The problem I am experiencing is causing the pressure on the gauge attached to the filter to increase from 9 psi to 20 psi sometimes over a few hours and sometimes in a...