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Our FC is down by 10-12 ppm. We removed the bac pac a couple of days ago. Looks like things are settling down. The water is much less cloudy, though not yet toally clear. I think we might be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel or the botom of the pool in the deep end! Thanks for all the...

Our tests today shows our high free chlorine level (50 ppm) continues, possibly due to our high CYA (80 ppm). We saw something online called a chlorine neutralizer - some sort of sodium thiosulfate compound. Anyone have any experience with these (and should I pose this question as a separate...

Unfortunately, we don't have a vac to waste mode with our pool. Our story today - I added some clarifier last night (I know opinions were mixed, but we had the stuff) and the pool actually does seem a little clearer today - don't know if that was the normal progression or due to the clarifier...

Hi anonapersona - at one stage during our mess I did see that the cloud had settled to the bottom. I tried vacuuming, but the material just came back through our pool return - it was passing through our filters. The stuff just got mixed back into the pool and clouded everything up. I...

Oops - forgot to respond to Dave - we're in the Frederick MD area. Our pool is pretty different from our neighbors, our pool pump is located in a hatch in our pool deck and we have minimal piping to circulate water. Basically, every fall I just pull the pump out of the hatch and take it inside...

I think I've figured out at least part of the cloudiness issue - I noticed when pulling our 6 micron filter bags this morning (you lift them up out of the filter well area) that as the water passed through them a lot of the cloudiness did also - I think 6 micron might not be fine enough to...

And here's a really dumb question I forgot to ask initially - when can we start swimming in the pool? Is there a certain FC level we need to drop down to?

Oops - forgot to answer the chlorine question. Our normal chlorination has been through the pool frog system using chlorine backpacks - I agree the CYA is high, when we went into this a couple of days ago we were reading a CYA of 50 on our test strips and had a pool store reading of 60 - this...

Hello again - Can't believe the quick responses, thanks. The filter is a little unusual to describe - it's basically two textile bags, about 40 inches long, 16" in diameter - the filters can be removed and hosed off - they come in different pore sizes, right now we're using the 6 micron size...

Hi all - We're brand new to the forum and found it because of a problem we've been having - hope we can get some advice. We have a 30,000 gallon Desjoyaux inground vinyl pool with the frog mineral/chlorine system. We opened late this year and had a significant green algae problem to start -...