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    Rusty looking water after backwash/rinse

    Thanks for the info! I will have to fill with our well water for the foreseeable future, so I'll have to pick up sequestrant up. I'm also putting together one of the 'whole house filter' setups for my hose when I need to top off. When adding the sequestrant is it a simple dump in the pool as...
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    Rusty looking water after backwash/rinse

    After getting things stabilized, I backwashed and rinsed through until everything was coming out clear. It was pretty brown and nasty during the backwash and beginning of rinse, but cleared up nicely. I then shut my pump down to switch back to filter and when I turned it back on I got a cloud...
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    New Pool Owner Needing some help and guidance!

    **UPDATE** I picked up a new test kit today (Leslie's FAS-DPD Kit) and here are my updated test results: FC= 5.2ppm (They listed ideal range between 2.0-4.0) how can I can get this down? CC= 0.4ppm PH= 8.0 (Per their calculation tables I could add 5.25lbs of dry acid to get this to 7.4) TA=...
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    New Pool Owner Needing some help and guidance!

    Hi everyone! I'm so glad I found this forum and am already learning a bunch; wish I would've found this a couple weeks ago and I'd probably have a clear pool already! Quick background, My family and I moved into our place in early November and decided to keep the pool (27' round above ground...