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    2 gallons of clarifier, now chlorine won't take.

    I tried to cheat, now I pay the price. Essentially I was doing fine about 4-5 days in with a DE filter, beat the algae battle and was trying to rush opening by a few days. FC was fine overnight and I was going after the "dust" in the water. I added 2 gallons of Swimsoft C, clarifier which has...
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    Iron Stains, AA Treatment safe to swim in?

    So I had problems with low pH, I stopped using trichlor, switching BBB method, brought pH up to 7.6, kept chlorine in check and the iron stains come out. I'm about to follow the AA treatment program, dropping FC to 0, adding AA to get rid of the iron stains leaving my filter on circulate. My...
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    Cannot raise pH or Alkalinity

    I've been through pool school and used the pool calculator and cannot seem to make any progress raising either pH or TA to acceptable levels. I have had no issues keeping Chlorine in check this season using the trichlor pucks in the skimmer baskets and shocking with liquid bleach on a weekly...