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    What's your current pool temp?

    Been in the 80's for over a month now. Right now I believe it's 85.
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    FYI on Muratic Acid at Lowes

    I have an SWG so my PH tends to run high, hence the need for the acid.
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    FYI on Muratic Acid at Lowes

    I'm in California and all the Lowes I've checked have the 14.5%. It wouldn't surprise me if it was only California area stores that were doing this. I sure love the weather here, but other than that Cali pretty much sucks.
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    FYI on Muratic Acid at Lowes

    I went to Lowes to buy some Muriatic Acid and was surprised to find that not only had it gone up in price from $8.49 for two gal. to over $9.50 for two gal. But even more disappointing is that fact that they are now carrying the "14.5%" hydrochloric acid instead of the "29%" hydrochloric acid...
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    Salt level question and white flakes

    Well, I have had problems with the dreaded white flakes from the beginning. It hasn't seemed to matter what my calcium hardness level is. I've had levels from 350 all the way down to 260 and still had about the same amount of flakes. I always try to keep my PH around 7.4 - 7.6, this more than...
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    White flakes and foam

    Hey Solcalkc, do you also have an Aquarite unit? I'm wondering if this problem is more frequent with this brand of SWG? The scaletec seems to help, but for the price it doesn't seem to help enough. keeping ph down between 7.2 -7.4 seems to help more. But it sounds like you have WAY more flakes...
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    White flakes/granules in pool and filter

    It's Calcium flakes as Valera said. I have an Aqua Rite and it does the same thing. Try to keep your PH down around 7.2. This seems to reduce the amount of flakes that I get. When it gets up around 7.6-7.8 I get TONS of flakes. Hope this helps out!
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    White flakes and foam

    Yeah, my SWG turns of when the reading gets around 3600 I believe. Funny thing is when I take my water in to get tested they always say the salt is between 2500 and 2800. I have ordered the TF Salt test strips to compliment my PS233 so I can check for myself . Waterbear, the plates in my...
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    White flakes and foam

    I also have flakes that accumulate at the shallow end of my pool near the return jets. I have never added any algecide to my pool. The only thing that seems to get rid of them for a while is a product called Scale-Tek. And I always have bubbles coming out of my return jets when my SWG is...