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Thank you Richard, I was not aware of FLOC, and after reading about it, does sound like something that might help. And thank you Jim. Everyone, we have a history with this neighbor ever since we bought the house two years ago. He's the neighborhood troublemaker that police are well aware of. I...

Thankfully our insane neighbor didn't actually damage any of our equipment or the pool itself but while we were on a weekend trip last month, my outdoor camera caught our **insane** neighbor trespassing and dumping three bags of their yard waste in our pool. Leaves, sticks, grass clippings...

Brought pool to SLAM level again. Hoping for a quick one. :brickwall:

I just took the ladder out and there's algae there. [emoji849] Going to scrub them with bleach. With my skimmer and return jet locations, is there a "best" spot my ladder should be? My rechecked the CYA. It's accurate. I did not deep clean the sand in my filter, all that's on my list...

It's been 10 days since I passed the OCLT after a six-day SLAM. The water has been crystal clear and I have been testing it daily. FC has never dropped below 5. CC has been 0.0 or 0.5. All my numbers from two hours ago are below the photos. When we came out to swim today, there was a layer of...

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Look who passed the OCLT! Now I let it go back down to normal FC levels?

I'm hoping to pass the OCLT tonight!! 1.5 loss the night before, 1.0 loss last night... fingers crossed!

Lost 1 FC overnight. The fight continues...

Lost 1.5 FC overnight! The end is in sight!

I was just in Menard's and found some "pool shock liquid chlorinator," with 12.5% sodium hypochlorite, double the bleach I've been able to find elsewhere. At $3.55 a gallon this is the cheapest chlorine I've been able to find in my area. I wish I had found this last Friday, I could have saved...

Thank you everyone! I won't sweat the rain. [emoji16]

My water is almost clear and I'm still maintaining SLAM level FC. I have another post tracking that wonderful journey. [emoji16] There is a 65% chance of rain in about 4 hours and I'm wondering if I should throw the cover on the pool?

:D Oh, man, I know! We have nosy neighbors and they probably thought I slaughtered the whole family. Thankfully we all made an appearance on the porch this morning at the same time, so here's hoping no detectives show up.

I started with nine gallons on hand, only because that was all I could get my hands on that morning. This photo includes the gallons I added one per day while waiting for my TF-100 kit to arrive. In a weird way, this has been fun so far. I wouldn't want to have to do it again, but I like the...

Some photos thus far: Pre-shock (Friday) Day 1 (yesterday) Day 2 (this morning) Added some DE to my filter last night to help clear the pool more quickly. Very little green left in pool, mainly in the middle where it's hard to reach with vacuum. We Macgyver'd our vacuum pole to a rake to...

My digital pH meter is saying 7.3. The little blue box in the TF-100 kit shows ~7.8 by the color chart, which is the one I recorded. So I made sure my digital reader is accurate with a control sample that came with it, and it is accurate, so I'm going with its reading. Not sure I like those...

And that's done. Added the calculated amounts of baking soda and borax. pH is now at 7.8 and TA is at 80. Going to wait until sundown to bring the pool up to shock level.

Here's my new numbers after draining and refilling overnight. FC = 6 CC = 0 TC = 6 pH = 6.8 CH = 100 TA = 30 CYA ~ 60 Proceeding to raise pH and TA to needed levels.

Is this water safe enough to get into and vacuum and scrub the walls while it drains? There is a lot of dead algae on the bottom (I attempted a shock earlier in the week with three gallons of bleach -- I'm just now noticing the water itself isn't green it's the bottom of the pool) and I'm...

Yikes, I was hoping for less but I guess I'll start draining. I did a small drain the other day after it rained and it killed everything around the where the water comes out the backwash hose. HUGE area of dead grass. Guess that's the acid?

I did the diluted CYA test and got ~110.

26' Coleman Above Ground with Intex Sand Filter and Intex SWG. FC = 14 CC = 3 TC = 17 Ph = 6.8 CH = 125 TA = 40 CYA ~ 110 (diluted CYA test) Am I right in thinking I'm heading towards at least a 20% drain here because of the insane CYA level? What in the world caused those CYA levels? I...

There's a house down our street with a pool, and I've seen him testing before... going to go ask if he has one I can borrow. ;D

They're sending me a tube Priority mail. :) Hope it gets here before Sunday.

I don't have a CYA View Tube with a black dot on the bottom! I've very disappointed (actually a bit angry) about this. I shelled out $110 for the kit and SpeedStir and I really need to do a CYA test before starting a proper SLAM, apparently. Now I'm stuck. Can I do the test another way without...