Hey all. I need to review my signature to make sure you have all the info you might need. We recently moved into this home 3 months ago and my learning curve has been steep. Things have been going pretty smoothly up until about 10 days ago when I noticed some algae forming in the grout of my beach area. This may be associated with my failed attempt at cleaning my DE filter cartridges. (Long story ending with getting a pro to figure out I hadn't placed the cartridges back in correctly)
After this process and adding a bit of water back into the pool, I began to notice the algae in the grout. This predictably coincided with a pretty significant drop in my FC levels. Usually they hover in the 3.0 range but dropped to 0.5 per the test at Leslies. The test also indicated the following:
FC = 0.5
Salt=2800ppm
pH = 7.6
TA = 70
CYA=30
CH = 170
I have gotten TA to 90 and added granular cyanuric acid so hopefully will see some improvements there too in a few days. I also bumped the Calcium per the formula and will check it soon too. Getting a bit nervous about the FC I purchased a few small bags of Chlor Brite and added them on Tuesday. I even sprinkled some of the ChlorBrite directly on to the grout. After a few days the algae in the grout is largely (but not entirely gone). The FC spiked predictably but my rinky-dink test kit only shows up to 3.0 on my FC (I've got a better one on the way). It was way over 3.0 up until yesterday and is now in normal range. BTW my SWG is currently at around 45% and reading 2500.
I'm hoping all this normalizes things by the end of the weekend, but I wanted to post my situation. Am I on track with what I'm doing here? If my signature needs more info I'll be glad to include it. Thank you in advance for your time. I'll keep reading.
After this process and adding a bit of water back into the pool, I began to notice the algae in the grout. This predictably coincided with a pretty significant drop in my FC levels. Usually they hover in the 3.0 range but dropped to 0.5 per the test at Leslies. The test also indicated the following:
FC = 0.5
Salt=2800ppm
pH = 7.6
TA = 70
CYA=30
CH = 170
I have gotten TA to 90 and added granular cyanuric acid so hopefully will see some improvements there too in a few days. I also bumped the Calcium per the formula and will check it soon too. Getting a bit nervous about the FC I purchased a few small bags of Chlor Brite and added them on Tuesday. I even sprinkled some of the ChlorBrite directly on to the grout. After a few days the algae in the grout is largely (but not entirely gone). The FC spiked predictably but my rinky-dink test kit only shows up to 3.0 on my FC (I've got a better one on the way). It was way over 3.0 up until yesterday and is now in normal range. BTW my SWG is currently at around 45% and reading 2500.
I'm hoping all this normalizes things by the end of the weekend, but I wanted to post my situation. Am I on track with what I'm doing here? If my signature needs more info I'll be glad to include it. Thank you in advance for your time. I'll keep reading.