At last we received our chlorine/bleach! Thank you to everyone for their advice so far.
Night before last we added muriatic acid to lower our ph which was sitting at over 8.
The ph fell to 7 when I measured it yesterday morning.
I measured my CYA - it appears to have gone up and looks to be around 60 now (before I had measured 50). I have to say I found it difficult to measure yesterday for some reason and had to do it several times.
Based on TFP table we should slam to 24 if our CYA is 60
I added bleach at midday yesterday to raise FC levels to 24
4.30pm yesterday
FC - 24
CC - 1
9pm yesterday
FC - 20
CC - 1.5
Added more bleach to take back up to 24
This morning at 8am - it's rainy and cloudy
FC - 26
CC - 1
I'm going to keep testing every hour or so, and will brush again, and vac although when I vacuumed it yesterday it pulled a little algae from the bottom but not an awful lot (I think we need a more powerful pump).
We are going away this evening for the weekend - can anyone advise best thing to do to help us keep on top of this whilst we are away - back on Sunday evening. Typical! If the bleach had arrived when it was supposed to, we would have been on top of it for now and could have maintained with our SWG but hey ho!
Any other advice you can give me so that we can stay on top of this whilst we are away, and any other observations you make on our readings so far?
Thanks in advance