I'm not sure about exact timing for anything here. We were in the pool about 3.5 hours, so I think most events are at most 1 hour-ish apart
Just before we got in, I used my Taylor 9056 test kit with 5 drops of R-0001 and 5 drops of R-0002. This isn't the OTO kit that comes with the TF100 because it's what my pool store sells and I like that it reads from 0-10 FC instead of 0-5.
My FC supposed to be between 2 and 7. It read 2, which made me leery since we hadn't gotten in yet. However, my SWG has a "Super Chlorinate" option, which basically just runs it at 100% duty cycle for an hour. I'd never used it before, but this seemed like a perfect time to try it.
I used it, and we swam for a bit. Notably, there were multiple times we looked in the skimmer (there's only 1) while swimming because toys kept getting into it and my son didn't shut the door on it all the way.
About half an hour before we quit swimming, (after my wife and daughter already left but my son and i were sticking around a bit longer) I checked FC to see how the super-chlorinate did. It read 3, which I liked. I went ahead and restarted the sequence again because I would prefer a little more padding in my FC number.
A couple minutes later, I noticed the water coming out of the jets looked a little cloudy. I've noticed this before when the SWG is actively generating, I'm pretty sure on a normal day it's just bubbles from the electrolysis.
About 15 minutes after that, I couldn't see my feet in the water any more, it was so cloudy. That wasn't bubbles. I very quickly got myself and my son out of the pool
I tested AGAIN, and was back to 2 FC. While picking up all the pool toys I checked the skimmer again, and there was a dead mouse in it.
The whole thing is bizarre and disturbing. I'm 90% sure I checked the skimmer before we swan, but it's such a non-notable thing for me I don't have explicit memory of it. It was small, but I'd think my son or I would notice a dead rodent in the skimmer when either one of us had it open to grab toys out, but it's not like we were doing maintenance at the time.
At the same time, it's weird that a mouse would have run across my pool deck and jumped in WHILE we were swimming. The door was shut- the only way in would have been through the 1-inch vent hole in the lid. Then, it would have to drown and immediately start polluting my entire pool in minutes. That whole sequence stretches credulity with me, and makes me question my awareness of what was in the skimmer while we swam.
Everybody got a THOROUGH scrub in the shower after we got out, even those of us not in the cloudy water. But my children are both very small, and I can guarantee some of that water got in stomachs and lungs across the entire swim.
I'm not sure how to explain the events that happened, or how worried I need to be about them.
Just before we got in, I used my Taylor 9056 test kit with 5 drops of R-0001 and 5 drops of R-0002. This isn't the OTO kit that comes with the TF100 because it's what my pool store sells and I like that it reads from 0-10 FC instead of 0-5.
My FC supposed to be between 2 and 7. It read 2, which made me leery since we hadn't gotten in yet. However, my SWG has a "Super Chlorinate" option, which basically just runs it at 100% duty cycle for an hour. I'd never used it before, but this seemed like a perfect time to try it.
I used it, and we swam for a bit. Notably, there were multiple times we looked in the skimmer (there's only 1) while swimming because toys kept getting into it and my son didn't shut the door on it all the way.
About half an hour before we quit swimming, (after my wife and daughter already left but my son and i were sticking around a bit longer) I checked FC to see how the super-chlorinate did. It read 3, which I liked. I went ahead and restarted the sequence again because I would prefer a little more padding in my FC number.
A couple minutes later, I noticed the water coming out of the jets looked a little cloudy. I've noticed this before when the SWG is actively generating, I'm pretty sure on a normal day it's just bubbles from the electrolysis.
About 15 minutes after that, I couldn't see my feet in the water any more, it was so cloudy. That wasn't bubbles. I very quickly got myself and my son out of the pool
I tested AGAIN, and was back to 2 FC. While picking up all the pool toys I checked the skimmer again, and there was a dead mouse in it.
The whole thing is bizarre and disturbing. I'm 90% sure I checked the skimmer before we swan, but it's such a non-notable thing for me I don't have explicit memory of it. It was small, but I'd think my son or I would notice a dead rodent in the skimmer when either one of us had it open to grab toys out, but it's not like we were doing maintenance at the time.
At the same time, it's weird that a mouse would have run across my pool deck and jumped in WHILE we were swimming. The door was shut- the only way in would have been through the 1-inch vent hole in the lid. Then, it would have to drown and immediately start polluting my entire pool in minutes. That whole sequence stretches credulity with me, and makes me question my awareness of what was in the skimmer while we swam.
Everybody got a THOROUGH scrub in the shower after we got out, even those of us not in the cloudy water. But my children are both very small, and I can guarantee some of that water got in stomachs and lungs across the entire swim.
I'm not sure how to explain the events that happened, or how worried I need to be about them.
