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    Battling with Algae

    Re: Battling with Algea The water is clear. The only visible algae is on the surface of the wall/bottom where it becomes a bit rough due to the age. I brushed pretty hard but never seemed to get rid of it. The color is green. I thought the reason was that my shock level was not high enough...
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    Battling with Algae

    My pool started showing algea growth on the wall and the bottom. I shocked it a couple of times using bleach and never able to completely get rid of it. Maybe I didn't shocked it high enough. I restarted the battle yesterday. I poured 10 gal of 6% bleach into my 14000g paster pool. I guess the...
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    TF Test Kit - unable to test FC

    Thanks Guys! Ok. Here is the story, I saw your reply and took some time off work re-testing my pool. This time, it worked. I don't have to add the second snoop of the 870. It turned pink as usual. I guess the FC was too high it was just bleached out. The same test working last night was...
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    TF Test Kit - unable to test FC

    I shocked my pool(14000gal) with 10 gal 6% bleach yesterday to get rid of the algae. When I tested the water last night, the FC reading was 33. However, when I tried to test the water again this morning, I didn't get any reading. I used TF test kit and followed the instruction. Filled 10ml pool...
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    Too much cholrine, safe to swim?

    Sure. I will check what equipment is being used. I bought the house two years ago but still a bittle struggle on maintaining the pool. I went to the pool store yestersday and tried to get a CYA tested. But the pool staff said the chroline level is too high and everything is bleached out. They...
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    Too much cholrine, safe to swim?

    I had a reoccuring algea problem two weeks ago and the shocks from the pool store has been useless. I poured 15 gallon of 6% bleach into my 14K pool. Now all the algea seems to be dad. I took a water test, it was about 15ppm as of now. Is this too high for swimming? It's been at this level for...