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    CYA Levels in the average pool

    The previous owner of the pool that came with my house would be, in my mind, the "average" pool owner. He went to the pool store about once a month and bought about 60 bucks worth of supplies, including an OTO test kit, some cal-hypo shock, and some Trichlor tablets. I'd say he's a common pool...
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    Fighting with PH and TA

    FC 7 CC 0 PH 7.7 TA 60 CH 375 CYA 55 I've run into a problem with my TA. This is an older pool and the PH is fairly constantly rising, which I've been fighting with MA. The pool has some moderate to severe calcium scaling perpetrated by the previous owner, so I've been trying to keep the Ph...
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    Soooo.. Found an old Aquarium heater. Hmmmm

    simple question: putting a 200w aquarium heater in the pool for a month. It would cost 14 bucks in electrical useage per month. Would it actually DO anything though.? 15k gallon IG plaster, no cover here in AZ.
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    Two quick questions re: free chlorine levels and how to test

    I don't seem to be losing FC at a normal pace. Here in tucson the water's up to 60 degrees, I chlorinate with 10% liquid chlorine. I had a horrifying CYA level of 150, I managed to the get that down to 55 with a partial water change. However, despite the CYA being at a good level for here...
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    How's my plaster look?

    I was doing my weekly chemistry check on the pool and decided to do a CYA test again just for fun (I've only done the one before, Taylor gives you enough reagents to do 20,000 CH tests but EIGHT CYA tests, go figure) and doing the dilution trick netted me a result of 150. It's not causing...
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    New pool, need to figure out what to tackle first.

    Purchased a new house with a pool in October '11 and it came with a large-ish ~20,000 gal pool, its irregularly shaped(kind of like a v shape) however and also goes from 3 feet to 10 feet at the deep end so the capacity is a guess. I called the local pool builder that has their name stamped in...