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Being a pool owner for only one year now, I thought I would try to really stay ahead of my bleach this year to avoid issues with water bugs. I have even been dumping extra bleach; test and scrub, vacuum, skim daily (some of those several times/day). So why in good heavens did I just remove a...

The clarity of my kitchen sink water the morning after I soaked my Dolphin cartridges over night in a sudsy warm Dawn mixture. I have been using the same ones since May 2015 and actually had recently purchased new ones with the mind frame of perhaps maybe replacing them each spring. I was...

Okay. So we've had the shortest winter ever since moving to Oklahoma 9 years ago! But still, to keep the pool blue all winter long in Oklahoma and window-picture-perfect, I swear I spend more hours weekly maintaining my pool than the average Joe. But my fellow pool owners here on Trouble Free...

I realize lots of things can cause cancer and you can't always have it both ways. Call me crazy or paranoid, but does anyone else have an underlying worry of carcinogens you get exposed to from frequent testing? I guess I will start wearing a little painters mask as it suddenly dawned on me that...

...water beetle!! We've had rain the last 3 days and the sun has come to visit today...imagine my surprise to find this thing floating dead (thank goodness). The tile on the seating ledge is 3x3 to give you an idea of the size of this thing. I included it next to a quarter. Please tell me it's...

Yesterday's results stink, but pool looks like this anyway. It was my first ever test after a week of anxiety over it..couldn't believe it was SO easy to do my own chems, thanks to TFP. I and it is, a work in progress ;) About to add some muriatic acid and retest again:p ...thank you all...

Backwash-rinse. Wash. Rinse. Wash. Rinse. Makes sense doesn't it? Except I missed that concept. I'm sitting here 2 hours post backwashing the pool and it is pitch black outside now...I'm fretting now that all my hard work getting rid of algae, back swimmers, and the ones they love to eat, etc...

Hello, I am also very new to TFP. I've been lurking for about a month now and finally decided to join. I am a complete pool novice. I realize we all start somewhere, though. We just bought our home in March and it came with a lovely pool, in fact the pool was a major reason for choosing this...