well i wouldn't say that the result of the first being brown and then turning to red chunks applies to me. It immediately goes in orange and stays orange and never dissolves..it basically looks like you putting vegetable oil in a glass of water, it just sortof moves around when i shake it but won't dissolve. So i just diluted half of it with tap water and it totally did what it was suppose to and dissolved to a darker orange color. what do you think all of this means?
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Sounds like your chlorine levels are very very high ... is that possible? Have you been adding chlorine?
i just noticed the post about my SWG running a lot, yes it has pretty much been running non stop because i'm fighting algae and was told it was best to leave the water constantly circulating until problem is resolved.
i've been adding buckets of granulated chlorine because my pool store was telling me to because i can't get a FC reading and have algae
So what REALLY happened is that your FC is sky high and the "expert" at the pool store does not know that the DPD test he is using which maxes out at 5ppm is getting bleached out by the high FC levels 
What kind of granular chlorine are you using? Hopefully it has not made the CYA sky high as well.
Just use more powder in the FAS-DPD test until it stays pink ... use a 10ml sample so each drop is 0.5ppm. Or even try a 5ml sample so each drop is 1ppm since it may be VERY high.
What kind of granular chlorine are you using? Hopefully it has not made the CYA sky high as well.
Just use more powder in the FAS-DPD test until it stays pink ... use a 10ml sample so each drop is 0.5ppm. Or even try a 5ml sample so each drop is 1ppm since it may be VERY high.
ok so yeah my CYA level is well above 100, i can no longer see it well before i get to 100
ok well my question at this point is if my chlorine level is so high why do i have algae still and when i was dumping the chlorine granules in the pool it would turn grey like it was dying?
Because your CYA is apparently too high so the FC is still not high enough. Time to replace a lot of water to get the CYA to a manageable level.
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Try diluting the CYA test with 50/50 pool and tap water and then double the result to get a better estimate of CYA.
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ok well i just filled the cl cylinder to 5ml and it took me 4 scoops to get it to stay pink and i'm up to 80 drops and it's still not budging
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If you put your numbers into the pool calculator it will tell roughly how much water to drain I believe
Say you got 100 cya and your goal is 60 it says to replace 40% of your water
Well that's on my pool your pool maybe different but not by much
My pool is 14600 gallons yours is 15000
If you put your numbers into the pool calculator it will tell roughly how much water to drain I believe
Say you got 100 cya and your goal is 60 it says to replace 40% of your water
Well that's on my pool your pool maybe different but not by much
My pool is 14600 gallons yours is 15000
according to the test kit, since i diluted half of the cya test with tap water it's saying my CYA level is more like 200
ok well this is really depressing, according to the pool calculator if my CYA level is 200 and goal is 80 then i need to replace 60% of my water, how did this happen?
You are right it is at least 200ppm. So you likely need to replace about 75% of the water.
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Do what these guys tell you and you'll soon have a nice and clean pool
I'm a new pool owner and before I found this site I didn't know what to do
My pool installer told me it was ok to add bleach (I read online that you shouldn't) and then I started to surf the web and found TFP.COM
It was the best thing that could of happened at the time
I've been shocking my pool according to the pool school since April 29th and my pool is looking really good
I'm just waiting for it to clear up and then I'll take the test (1. free chlorine stays within 1.0ppm overnight, 2. Combined chlorine =.5ppm or less and the water is crystal clear)
And all it has cost me is about 45 dollars in bleach and I did buy the TF-100 test kit and I'm glad I did
I'm almost there just a couple of more days
Good Lord if I didn't find this place I would have been Pool Stored to death
Do what these guys tell you and you'll soon have a nice and clean pool
I'm a new pool owner and before I found this site I didn't know what to do
My pool installer told me it was ok to add bleach (I read online that you shouldn't) and then I started to surf the web and found TFP.COM
It was the best thing that could of happened at the time
I've been shocking my pool according to the pool school since April 29th and my pool is looking really good
I'm just waiting for it to clear up and then I'll take the test (1. free chlorine stays within 1.0ppm overnight, 2. Combined chlorine =.5ppm or less and the water is crystal clear)
And all it has cost me is about 45 dollars in bleach and I did buy the TF-100 test kit and I'm glad I did
I'm almost there just a couple of more days
Good Lord if I didn't find this place I would have been Pool Stored to death
Powdered chlorine is stabilized with CYA. Pool stores like to sell powdered chlorine because it's expensive, but they either don't know or don't care that it sends your CYA levels through the roof. And now you're left with the headache.mhein006 said:
It sucks, but bite the bullet, do the drain and refill. Pool chemistry is much much easier, and extremely predictable, when you get all of the parameters where they should be.
the more i think about it the more i think draining would be the best thing to do. Since i am having a mustard algae problem would it be beneficial to just drain the whole thing and clean it out or let it dry out? or if i just dropped about 75% would it be best to attack it with having less water in the pool?