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I know this is an older post, but I'm replying in solidarity. I too am in Austin and I've been fighting aphids for over a year. We had to spray the back yard again this year and I'm again fighting pool chlorine issues. I posted about it last summer and no one on the forum seemed to know anything...

Yup, I'm learning that. Add more chlorine, dummy.

Had the trees sprayed 3 weeks ago then just had it done again on Friday and I still don't think it got them all. These things are a nightmare. I've cleaned up the back yard a bit, but I'm waiting until I'm sure they're gone before I do a full clean up. We also have a lot of pecans falling, and...

Got it. More chlorine it is then!

My water has been a little cloudy lately and I'm wondering if it's because of the high CH. Full report below. I added some muriatic this morning, so my pH and TA are lower than usual. Is it time to do a partial drain? FC: 5 pH: 6.8 TA: 40 CH: 700 CYA: 70 Salt: 3200

100% agree with all of this. I used to run at around 4 FC and had all kinds of problems. I've been aiming for 10 lately and haven't had any issues at all. This incident was a perfect storm (literally) where I was out of town for a few days, the SWG had an issue and shut off, and we had a massive...

I posted this at the bottom of another thread, but it's going to get buried on the third page so I wanted to create a new thread for posterity. For the last 3 summers in a row, we've gotten a massive rain that has caused my chlorine and CYA levels to drop to 0 and make my water super cloudy, as...

This article seems to corroborate my story, if anyone is interested. https://www.poolspanews.com/business/chlorine-sucking-flies-the-sequel_o

Hello all. I have an update. After many, many gallons of chlorine, I finally managed to get the water to register an FC above 0, and then I accidentally overshot and ran it up to about 30. Oops, but at least it finally got clean. So that leaves the question of how I got there to begin with. I...

I don't have an autofill, so that's not it. Yeah, I know what ultimately caused this (low FC and a lot of rain) and I know how to fix it. This is the geek in me needing to understand what's going on in this giant chemistry set we call a "pool" 😆

As in water leaking out or in? Leaking out doesn't seem like it would affect CYA at all. Leaking in might if it brought in bacteria, but I can't imagine any leak being enough to affect your chemistry by much.

The bleach I started with is only about a month old. I bought 4 more boxes today and have had the same experience. I must have ammonia in the water, I just don't know how it got there.

Possibly? We have a lot of trees, but it doesn't seem like that should be enough. Not getting any groundwater or runoff in the pool as far as I can tell. Our house is pretty new and we did a lot of work with the drainage. It's a head scratcher.

This has happened 3 times over the 5 years I've had the pool, so I do know how to fix it. It takes a crazy amount of chlorine (like 6 gallons) and eventually clears up. I'm really looking for the root cause, and that's why I posted it in the Deep End section. It seems to follow the description...

I've added 3 gallons over a couple days. Whatever is in the water is immediately canceling out the chlorine. I can't get it to register FC at all. As I said above, I suspected ammonia, but my ammonia strips don't register either. https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Ammonia

I've joked before that I could make a fortune bottling up whatever is eating my CYA. If you had high CYA, it would be a lot easier to use that stuff than to have to drain. 😆

I'm central, so there's plenty of development close-ish but not close enough to be affecting my pool. And this has happened 3 times over almost 5 years, so I can't pin it on a recent change. It only happens during a perfect storm (pun intended) of high rain and low chlorine because I screwed...

HDX - Home Depot's house brand. It's good stuff. Edit: scratch that. My Home Depot is carrying Pool Essentials now.

Not at this point, but I could a few days ago. There were leaves from the storm but nothing else.

The FAS-DPD reagent is a few months old and registered fine a few weeks ago. It stays inside in a dark drawer. Should be fine. I tested FC with the OTO viewer prior to taking that picture. It was clear too.

Have I discovered a new water chemistry phenomenon? 😂

I can't get FC to register at all. I just did the CC test also and got 0.

No, but we do have a lot of trees. I assumed the storm was blowing bacteria off of the leaves, or something like that.

I can't get FC to register at all. When this has happened to me before (third time now), I've had to add 6 bottles of bleach before FC would register. This is why I suspected ammonia, but my ammonia strips aren't registering anything either. Perhaps the answer is that my ammonia test strips are...

Nothing was added other than rain water. This has happened 3 times now after big storms.

@Texas Splash It doesn't look like algae to me. It's not green at all, just cloudy. And I've had algae a few times - that doesn't cause my CYA to drop. I think something else is going on. @mknauss just did the drop test. Nada. 0 FC.

We just had a massive rain that added about 4" of water to the pool. I drained it about 7" and then refilled a couple inches. Everything seemed fine. I then left town for a week and came back to super cloudy water. The salt meter on my automation equipment says that my salt is low and isn't...

@PoolStored did you make that rig yourself?

Especially over the summer. We've already hit 100 a few times this year, so I've been filling a couple inches a week.

@IceShadow I've been trying to get TA down for literally 4 years with no luck. I finally just decided to ignore it and only focus on pH. Happy to entertain any suggestions, but I feel like I've tried everything.