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Thank you all for your help. I have a good place to start now, and I'll experiment with it as I learn more.

Thanks @JoeSelf that's great info from someone with the same system. After I do the purge this week I will run the overnight chlorine loss test with the ClearRay on to see what the drop is. Do you just increase your recommended dose of chlorine by the loss amount to make up for it? Do you...

Thanks @JoyfulNoise I didn't purge my tub before initial use, so I'm going to purge it, drain it, clean it, and refill it this week. The Frog will go in the garbage after the refill. I look forward to your responses to the other questions.

Thanks @ajw22 I'm not sure if the CLearRay system is legit or if it falls into the category of useless toys. How can I tell? Is there a min power rating or something I can check?

I am a new Jacuzzi J-385 spa owner (460 gal.), and I'm working through the process for keeping the water clean and safe. I use the TFP method for my IG pool, and I'm happy with the results, so I would like to use a similar method with my spa. This spa comes with the Jacuzzi ClearRay system...

Yes, I rinsed the container several times until it was completely empty and then brushed all the CYA sediment that collected at the bottom of the pool until it was completely dissolved.

So I waited a few days per @PoolStored 's suggestion and checked CYA again. Still around 30. So I added another gallon of stabilizer, waited a couple days, and checked again today. Now it's at 40, so it's finally going up! That's the first time since the pool was completed last summer that...

@Texas Splash thanks for the suggestions. Those instructions are slightly different than the instruction printed on the card in the test kit, so I tried it that way, but the result is the same. My wife got the same result as well. I'm wondering if the CYA was so low when I opened the pool...

We opened our pool for the first time late last summer, and I've been having trouble increasing the CYA level ever since. It started out just below 30 ppm, which is the lowest mark on the tube in the test kit, so I added 1 gallon of liquid stabilizer, which brought it up slightly to 30. A...

I'm definitely skill level 0 right now, so I appreciate the input. The only thing I don't like about the pool building process is that you have to make all the important decisions about your pool equipment when you are at a skill level of 0. That's why I came here. If I can learn and get...

Thanks for all the comments - this has been very helpful! @YippeeSkippy is there any truth to sand getting smoother after years of water flowing over it and not filtering as well? I understand sand doesn't "wear out", but does it lose some of it's filtering ability due to smoothness after a...

@Newdude what you say makes sense. BTW, I haven't dismissed cartridge filters, I just thought they were mainly for smaller pools. Do you think they are a good option for a 27,000 gallon pool? The pool company uses Pentair so the cartridge filter I would get would be the Pentair Clean and...

Thank you all for the quick responses! I guess I'm just concerned that I'm considering a new pool with "old" sand filter technology instead of "new" DE filter technology. Maybe that's not the case. @ajw22 - I appreciate your comments about DE maintenance not being a big deal if you have a...

Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum and soon to be new to pool ownership - my liner pool is going in next summer. We are currently in the finalization stage for all the pool components, and I'm struggling with what type of filter to go with. I've been told to go with sand because it's so easy...