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We are on Day 5 of a SLAM. Yesterday, I woke up to a pool that was finally clear and had CC of 0. During the day yesterday, everytime I tested the water CC was 0, so I did an OCLT last night. When I tested the water at 7 am this morning, we had lost 1 ppms of chlorine overnight and CC was...

Thanks for all of the advice! I will try to be a little more patient and will continue the SLAM. I just wanted to make sure the low TA wasn't causing the cloudiness or hindering my progress since I've never had low TA like this before when doing a SLAM. I've also never had one that has taken...

We are on day 5 of a SLAM. We lost no chlorine overnight and CC is .5, but water is cloudy. I assume this means that we need to continue the SLAM. We had the same test results yesterday morning as well, and the water is just as cloudy as it was yesterday even though I've been keeping the pool...

I started a SLAM on Thursday. It rained non-stop for 12 hours during the SLAM on Friday and I didn't go out and test or add any chlorine during that time. I went out an hour after it stopped raining and tested the PH since I was worried that the rain increased it. It said that it was 8.0 so...

Thanks again for the advice. When I plugged soda ash into the calculator on the bottom, it says 2 pounds will raise PH by .37 to 7.27 and raise TA by 12 to 42. I know this is a bit more than the calculator on top recommends but it gets PH to the 7.2 goal and increases TA at the same time...

Thanks so much for the advice, Richard. I took a sample to a pool store today and I had the manager test the PH and TA since I don't have any TA reagents. They use a Taylor test kit there and the manager seems to know what he is doing. He said that TA is 30, and PH is probably closer to 6.8...

Before adding the acid, PH was 8.0. A pool store that uses a Taylor test told me that our TA was 70. (I had to rely on the pool store for the TA test only because my TA chemicals were all expired and over a year old and I couldn't wait to SLAM). We added Jasco Green muriatic acid which is...

We have a gas heater but we never use it. I don't know if we have a heater bypass. Pointing the returns upwards is the only thing on that list that we could easily do to raise the PH. I'm not that concerned about damaging the heater since we never use it but I'm very concerned about damaging...

If the PH is less than 7.0, would it still be fine to start the SLAM? After plugging in the amount of muriatic acid we added into a calculator, I'm concerned that PH might actually be lower than 7.0. The vial only goes down to 7.0 and the solution is yellow. Is there anyway to find out what...

PH was 8.0 at opening. We must have added too much muriatic acid to the pool because it appears to be 7.0 now or possibly lower. The solution is yellow. I ran out of one of the TA solutions so I'm not sure what the TA is. Can I proceed with the SLAM tonight since chlorine will increase PH...

Thanks so much for all of the advice. I started the SLAM on Saturday night, and my pool has already cleared up! I didn't lose any chlorine overnight and my CC was .5 this morning so I assume I passed the OCLT. There is a black substance on the floor of the pool though that looks like dirt or...

Thanks so much for the advice. I'm curious to know why you recommend that I increase the CYA with granular CYA in a sock instead of using Dichlor. If the liquid conditioner that I added today got the level to 19 like the pool math calculator indicated, I would only need to add 3 pounds of...

Here are our latest test results. FC - 4 CC - 1 (or maybe .5) PH - 7.4 or 7.6 TA - 60 calcium - 140 CYA - 0 (We have added chlorine several times today and it appears to be holding chlorine fairly well, considering the fact that it has no CYA and algae.)

We had a wetter than normal winter and had to drain water out of our mesh-covered pool several times in order to keep the water level below the tile line. We opened up our pool yesterday and it was much greener than usual and there was no CYA in our pool. All of the rain also severely lowered...