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    New Hot Tub... Bromine and Spa Frog

    Hi this forum has been helpful, appreciate. I read the sticky note for hot tubs and 2-step, 3 step Bromine, but confused. Spa is 550 gallon Has ozonator 103 deg F Measured with K-2106 (just got) today Total bromide 21 PPM (high I know) pH 8.0 (high reading maybe due to high bromide?) TA 75 CH...
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    Opened green pool for first time - need help

    HI gang here is my dilemma: Southern NH, inground 28k gallon vinyl installed 2013. First two openings, cold winters - blue water easy, went to chlorine, tested, went swimming all summer. Thanks to your BBB method and good advice, I always kept the FC / CC working right, and kept TA / PH in...
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    Excessive Spa Foaming

    Looking for some help with excessive foam on my hot tub, thanks in advance Marquis 390 gallon hot tub. Outdoor, new england, always covered except when in use. We are having excessive foam with air venturis open, no problem when jets on / venturis closed. tested water, changed water, added...
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    Vinyl pool cloudy - mustard algae, algae, or pollen???

    HI all, I have a read a bunch on here about pollen, and mustard algae, and am not sure which I have, so making a new post. Here are the stats from right now: POOL 6-14-14 10 AM FC 4.0 PPM CC 0.0 PPM PH 7.6 CYA 55 TA 70 CH 80 Pool is 80 degrees. In the northeast. Pool gets DIRECT SUN for...
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    new spa startup

    new 400 gallon hot tub (Marquis 660) - added well water. have a softener. ran for the last 2 days and added some bleach initially (about 15-20 ounces, or 1/8 bottle of 8% bleach) since i thought BBB was the way to go. here are the 1st test results: 8.4 ppm FC 1.0 ppm CC 90 ppm TA pH 8+ CH too...
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    PH Keeps Increasing

    Split from ph-keeps-increasing-t66544.html Please start your own thread when asking a question, rather than hijacking :wink: Thanks, Butterfly i am having the same issue. same test kit. new pool (water added july 2013). started on trichlor, switched to bleach when i found this site, CYA...
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    concrete deck poured - pH sky high

    We had our concrete deck poured friday, it is cantilever and a lot of concrete and pebbles went into the water. After two days of cleaning it looks nice BUT water test showed sky high pH. I was reluctant to add acid right away since the deck company comes back Thursday to acid wash the concrete...
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    cal hypo pucks?

    Had pool for 1 month now. Trying to get balanced. Filled with 28k gallons fairly soft water from the local reservoir + pool water company. Now using the chlorinator and 3" trichlor tablets and noticed I need to increase pH, TA and CH. I have used my Taylor test kit 2 times so I am no expert but...