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    Thoughts on chlorine pucks in skimmer or a floater?

    Hey everyone I was just wondering what your preference is about putting chlorine pucks in the skimmer vs a floater? I have a solar cover and I’m going to be gone for 4 days and want to prepare for it
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    Pool Start-up Question

    Hey everyone! It’s that time again to start the pool up. I have a quick question for all of you folks! I have a struggle every year getting this pool clear. It usually takes about 4-6 weeks for the pool to actually be clear and swimmable. This does get. Very. Very. Expensive. After some...
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    Pool Start-up

    Hey guys, I have just started up my pool and I am currently doing the SLAM method. I am just wondering if it usual for your chlorine to drop really quick within the first day? I have already added about 8 gallons of liquid chlorine and it went from DARK green to a light blue green. I first...
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    Question on opening pool and CC

    my question is. Is it normal when slamming my pool open for 5 days not see any CC when you test for it? Also my FC is not dropping like it did last year, last year it was getting sucked out like crazy. Also, it is still a light green. I will take pictures this morning to show.
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    Typical Chlorine depletion

    Hey guys just wondering what your tropical chlorine depletion is in a day? My cya test kit is out so I need more but I believe it was 20 last time I checked. Anyways I added two gallons of liquid chlorine yesterday at 12pm and I tested just now I only had 1ppm of fc left and my cc was below...
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    Am i vacuuming my pool wrong?

    I have always vacuumed my pool with the skimmer basket on, and yet when I vacuum; even now my filter clogs extremely quick as I am on week 2 of trying to open my pool yet it is still cloudy. My skimmer basket gets clogged with I believe algae or something green which restricts flow to the...
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    Please I can't get my pool to be Clear and it's been 2 weeks!

    Please someone help me I've tried for 2 weeks now to get this pool clear It just won't get clean, I have to got to the point of spending a lot of money on chlorine, chlorine shock, pH balance, , alkalinity increase, and phosphate remover which is what I'm doing right now and my pool is clear...