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    Crazy Reaction when Testing for Bromine in Hot Tub

    Does your Sundance have the 24/7 circulation pump? I'd recommend you use chlorine, and shock before you leave and again when you get back. If you like, toss a barely open floater in. This will be damaging to equipment and cover over time, but for occassional use is fine.
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    SLAMming my Spa - still getting bubbles

    I would use Ahhsome. Sounds like biofilm to me.
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    Constant battle with my Spas (PH vs AK)

    Absolutely necessary! I recommend Taylor. In my experience, ph is what will damage equipment and irritate bathers. I have never personally encountered this, as the water in the places I have worked is always high ph and alkalinity. I would suggest you bring ph to 7.6-7.8 and not worry overly...
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    Giardia Shock Recommendation

    Sounds like a good arrangement. A little light reading for bedtime... https://www.nachi.org/pool-water-pathogens.htm
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    Contemplating a UV system

    Have you considered ozone?
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    Does anybody really know what temp it is?

    Floating, or sinking, thermometers are notoriously inaccurate. Often the scale is on a plastic housing and the tube can be slid up and down inside it, changing your reading with the touch of a finger. Given that it was $5 on amazon, I would not place alot of trust in it's reading. Same goes for...
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    Shocking grren pool NOW IT IS BROWN

    Is it a clear brown, like tea, or a muddy water brown? I have had pools with alot of algae go brown when the algae was killed and bleached out by the chlorine. I have watched the brown spead through the green from the spot I added my chlorine. If that is what you have, it will settle and can be...