Ok, I busted rear last night after work. Unfortunately I ordered the wrong lateral assembly, but got lucky once I got my current one out. The crack I fixed last year is still doing just fine, and none of the laterals were damaged, so I took the assembly apart and cleaned all of the sand out of the orifices, and then reassembled. I had a fleet of 5 gallon buckets to put all 250 lb. of my sand in. As I was taking the sand out and got near the bottom and out towards the walls, the sand felt hard and didn't scoop as easily. So Im pretty positive that the sand in those areas never got agitated and did nothing in terms of filtering my water. To further prove this point valid, two or three scoops of sand from the very bottom had green algae in them. Also rather than deep clean the sand in the filter, I did each 5 gallon bucket individually. So I guess you can say I 'super cleaned' my sand, lol. Once I got everything back together, and verified I had no leaks, I called it a night.
This morning I vacuumed all of the white sediment to waste, placed the light back in the socket, and then cleaned and installed the ladder. We gotta have the clearest water on the block....or so I like to think so. Lots of $$, bleach, time, and swearing, and we can finally SWIM!
Levels are:
pH: 7.4
fc: 6
cc: 0
CH: 400
CYA: 35ish (the dot disappeared before reaching 30, and after 40. Just did the sock broadcast Thursday morning, so we will retest tuesday or wednesday. Im surprised it even registered considering the rain we had, and all the vacuuming to waste we did. I knew there was a chance that all the stabilizer I just added would amount to nothing, but it is!!)
Oh, and you better believe I enjoyed the 10 minutes in the pool while reinstalling the light!
