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PH was on the rise again so we added a .5 gallon of acid yesterday - tested later and it was down to 7.2. Checked this am. FC 8.0, PH 7.4 and voila TA down to 75 - it had been gradually going down after I had added acid. We're in business!!!! Now if it would only stay warm for a while here...

I want to thank you all again. Water is the best since we lived here. We went swimming and it was like being in a bath of soft water. Algae is gone but left some grey stain. :-( No more popping from the heater or rocks coming from one of the flows. Looks beautiful. FC is 8.5 now and PH is...

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Last evening: FC 17.5, PH 7.4, TA 95. Getting there on TA. (Added .5 gallon of acid in the am.)

Ok - FC at 20.5. I was able to get a PH reading even though that high - looked credible. It was 7.6. We ran filter all night as we'd added .5 gallon muriatic acid kind of blindly yesterday as we were getting a false high PH (I assumed...if not false it was about 8.2) We greatly brushed and...

We're getting there. Did the overnight FC test and only went down 1. However, I did the TA test wrong I think when I posted it before - it's still high so we're trying to do that next but my FC is pretty high - it's 23. I studied up on this forum on how to test PH with a high FC and tried...

Ok - we'll keep hitting it then. We did brush. :-)

TA now 60; FC 24; CC 0. Didn't check PH considering such high FC. Very happy with change in TA. We did add an inch of softened water plus it greatly rained yesterday. Don't know if that helped. Best I could get FC to was 24. That was with a gallon more of bleach than Pool Math suggested...

Thanks. Ok I did read that on the forum first. But I'm not doing two steps so here's hoping we'll be ok. I just went to the mustard algae level of FC and used the Pool Math to determine how much chlorine. It's going to be a couple of cool days here so we'll miss those days swimming. (We...

I'll work on that too. Today it is PH 7.6 and FC 6.5 and CC 0. We added some muriatic acid enough to bring back to 7.4 and after a time we added 3.5 gallons 12.5% to do a mustard algae shock - still seeing "some" yellow green algae around like on the ladder. Now we're looking into how to...

Thank you again. Yes I'll keep checking FC, CC and PH daily. My guess is PH will go up again. We think it is the constant aeration at both ends of the pool. We had no idea this was an issue. It would mean draining the pool down to fix it so we'll just limp around the next few weeks...

This morning's results after dumping in a gallon of muriatic acid last evening and running pool all evening: PH 7.4 and Alkaline 120. I also rechecked chlorine because I did the test yesterday incorrectly - did dippers wrong (I won't admit how I did it wrong :-) - I'm a computer tech!!!). FC...

Thank you. We'll monitor both more carefully especially now that we have the test kit.

This has been a great resource already. Thank you for your replies. 1. My husband is already looking into changing the output so that it's not aerating as it is. Those were our thoughts too that this constant aeration may be the culprit of our having too high of PH. (I like hearing the...

I purchased the Taylor T-2006 kit. First time I've used it :-). FC 4.0 CC 1.5 pH 8.0 (5 drops brought it down to 7.4) TA 160 CH 300 CYA 80 This was after shocking with 4 lbs. of Smart Shock about 40 hours ago or so. (My husband brushed the sides of the pool right before and...

Re: High Calcium Hardness I'd like to start with the high calcium as I think it's the root of the problem. My husband greatly cleaned the filter and we're getting a better flow now. Algae getting better so I'm not worried about that. Worried about the calcium scale - got the test kit today...

Found this forum. Thank you!!! I plan to order test kit. Found it on Amazon. We are greatly suffering from what I assume is calcium scale. We have scale on the sides of the pool, in the DE filter and in the pool heater. I just checked and it would cost close to $1,000 to replace our...