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Can someone tell me the difference between these 2? The orange label says use once and the purple label says use to maintain. I’m confused. I’ve only ever used the orange label one but my husband came home with both.

If you don’t recommend clarifiers, what do you recommend to increase CYA?

Opening pool. Water is half way up skimmer so all set in that way. Started the pump and just getting sucking air.

Hi. I was on here a couple of weeks ago. I think I have algae but could it be pollen? It’s yellowish brown. My pool has been clear and blue. I cannot buy a proper testing kit around me so I ordered from Amazon, a Taylor. Still waiting for it. I shocked my pool to the best of my ability, a couple...

Hi. I’m a new pool owner, since June, I vacuumed the pool yesterday and it looked great. Today I see this round edges and in seams. When I touch it with my foot, it seems to disappear which is what made me suspect algae. I now believe I’ve had this for awhile as I seem to have to vacuum my pool...

So got our first power bill since putting in the pool. It was up almost $100 in a month. Yikes. My water has been perfect so thought running the pump 24/7 was helping. Anyway, I’m going to shut it off for 8-10 hrs a day. What is the best time to run the pump? During the day while we are using it...

Hi. I’m back. 😀. Things are going well and my alkalinity is slowly dropping. New question. I did pool school and I get free chlorine, total chlorine and cc. My question involves CYA. I know it’s like sunscreen for chlorine but help me understand why too much is bad? What does it cause?

Hi. I told you I’d be back. 😁. My readings this morning: PH 7.6 FCl 3-5 TCl 3-5**** Alk 170 CYA 45 TH 250+ I thought I read that Total chlorine should be below 0.5 or it’s a problem. Is this true? thoughts???

Sorry for the long post: I’m new and have been trying since Sunday to balance the chemicals in my new pool. I’ve studied all the info at trouble free pool and use their app, pool math. I’m getting close: PH 7.5-7.8 FCl .1- added liquid chlorine in ant suggested by pool math TCl .5 TH 250+...