Small pool CYA question

[JeffMD]

I have a 1700 gallon pool and don't yet have a cya test for it. I've been swapping every other 2 days between using a small version (These are like half the size of a usual puck) trichlor tablets and plain old bleach. In each case I generaly loose between 1-2ppm a day, I was loosing more earlier but thats because I had a dirty bottem and was working out a way to vaccume this sucker with the crappy intex pump.

I dont have a cya test and I am afraid of it getting to high, but seeing as my ppm is allways in the 1-5 range then I don't think I have that much? The past several days I have been sticking one and only one tablet (half size of a puck) in the skimmer and when I test it the next morning, it is 1ppm, maybe less (very little color). Also TC and CC test don't change the color at all so I am assuming that means everything is good contamination wise.

If cya was getting high, would I be having a hard time getting FC to be low?

 

[dmanb2b]

How are you measuring FC and CC? The yellow OTO test is very hard to read IMO. FC level should be proportionate to your CYA level. Whether 1-5ppm is adequate, we really can't be sure.

Walmart has a $19.97 HTH 6 way drop based kit that can test for CYA if $'s are a concern

 

[JeffMD]

dman, I picked up taylors pool and spa trouble shooting kit, it had a 3 drop fc/cc test to it. it also had a large tube for other test so I just need to buy the replacements for the cya test.