New Pool owner CYA question

[js207005]

Hey guys, I just moved into my first house and have started taking care of the existing pool (AGP, oval, ~10000 gals). I've been following all of your advise on this forum, VERY helpful, but had a quick question:

After testing the CYA with my TF100, it looked to be roughly 0 (very clear even when the cylindar was full). I added enough CYA in a sock suspended in front of a return to bring it up 20. From other posts in the forum, it seems like it takes ppl a long time to dissolve the CYA, but mine was completely dissolved in about 3 hours (I squeezed the sock a couple times).

Just wondering, is that is odd?

Thanks!

Jeremy

 

[JasonLion]

That is a fair bit better than average, but not really unusual. It can still take up to a week to show up on the test.

 

[jblizzle]

Depends on how holy your sock was :angel:

Assume it is at 20ppm and retest in a week to confirm ... likely you will want to raise it higher to 30-50ppm to better protect the FC from the sun.

 

[Bama Rambler]

It's not odd. Some brands seem to dissolve rather quickly and some don't. The squeezing really speeds it up too.

reports have it that the HTH brand at walmart it very fast dissolving.

 

[js207005]

Awesome thanks guys, just wanted to double check.

Yep, i am ultimately shooting for 50 but wanted to low ball it at first in case i was messing something up

 

[mikemass]

To chime in. Last week I filled 2 socks with Cyanuric acid (solid). And put one in each skimmer. 24 hours later when I checked the socks they were rock solid. So I jumped in the pool with both socks in hand and squeezed, kneaded, basically did what ever it took to completely pulverize the particles in the socks. I completely had the socks empty within 5 minutes. When I tested 24 hours after that CYA was raised to where I expected it to be. Great method.