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    First spa. May have over done it with the chemicals.

    For Christmas I got my wife one of those Lay-Z-Spa Palm Springs inflatable hot tubs. This thing is very cool, but last night I put some all in one pool granules in it and this morning it has a FC level of 20. Do I need to dump the water? Is an FC level of 20 safe to sit in? Thanks for the help...
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    Arizona pool, summer, and free chlorine usage.

    My pool right now is crystal clear but I've noticed that it's going through free chlorine much faster than normal. It's a lot hotter now. Above 100 everyday and the pool feels very warm. Here were a lot of palm flowers in the pool the other day so I considered that there may have been algae...
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    Levels seem fine but pool water is green.

    Hey gang. A couple of days ago it rained and afterwards my pool looked a little cloudy and the water had a green tint. My TA levels were around 140 but everything else seemed pretty fine but I would lose a several ppm's of FC each day to where I was adding a half a gallon of bleach each day. I...
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    Is there anything I need to be doing immediately after having people in the pool?

    So I've finally got my pool back to looking crystal clear thanks to this site. I want to keep it that way so I was wondering if I need to be doing anything after having people in the pool. Should I wait a while and test the chlorine afterwards? Should I turn on the pump?
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    My first SLAM. Having a hard time maintaining shock levels. Is this normal?

    Hey everyone. Got my test kit and found that despite Leslie's guidance, I did in fact have chlorine in my pool and that they were full of it. My pool was still cloudy and my free chlorine levels were very low so I decided to try SLAM'ing for the first time. For my 16000 gallon pool I added...
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    Discovered this forum too late. Can't get chlorine to stay in pool and need some help

    Hi everyone. I've been spending the better part of the day trying to get my pool to hold chlorine and nothing seems to be working. I've spent a ton of time and money today at Leslie's and its achieved nothing. I can't be spending money this way on the pool and searched online for a solution and...