Help! High Alkalinity Low pH causing cloudy water
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Sounds like great progress
How did you add the CYA?
Put it into a sock and stuck it in the skimmer. I went out a few times a day after and squeezed the sock for 5-10 minutes to get it to dissolve faster.
There is a chance that as it left the sock it was not fully dissolved and then got stuck in the filter and backwashed ... perhaps that is why it is a little lower than you expected?
Anything is possible. I remember that when I was squeezing the sock the water turned a milky white color until I stopped. So I think it dissolved ok. I have about 8-9 oz left of the 5lb bag I bought. I will check it again tomorrow and add the rest if it is still low. Hopefully that will be all that is needed.
Came home today to a pool that I can finally see the bottom in! The water is still cloudy, but we are definitely almost clear. I dropped the robot in again as now I can see that there is still some alage left on the bottom. I will let him get up as much as he can.
Results:
FC: 9
CC: 0.5
TA: ~125
CH: Didn't test
CYA: Still ~30. I have no idea why this isn't going up. On Saturday if the level is still not where it should be I will use the rest of my stabilizer and test again.
Question for everyone. My fiance and I will not be home from tomorrow morning around 7 until Saturday in the early afternoon I am guessing. When I do my morning tests, do you think its ok for me to double whatever does PoolMath tells me to put in (i.e. if it tells me to use 1 jug put in 2)? I ask this so that I can stay at or above SLAM level while I am gone and cannot monitor the pool so that I don't lose any progress. We don't have anyone that knows how to test the water (I will have to teach someone as we have some more trips planned this summer).
Results:
FC: 9
CC: 0.5
TA: ~125
CH: Didn't test
CYA: Still ~30. I have no idea why this isn't going up. On Saturday if the level is still not where it should be I will use the rest of my stabilizer and test again.
Question for everyone. My fiance and I will not be home from tomorrow morning around 7 until Saturday in the early afternoon I am guessing. When I do my morning tests, do you think its ok for me to double whatever does PoolMath tells me to put in (i.e. if it tells me to use 1 jug put in 2)? I ask this so that I can stay at or above SLAM level while I am gone and cannot monitor the pool so that I don't lose any progress. We don't have anyone that knows how to test the water (I will have to teach someone as we have some more trips planned this summer).
I would not go too high to avoid liner damage. Dose it up to the Mustard shock level in PoolMath at the most.
Any tablets? Could float them and add a little CYA.
Any tablets? Could float them and add a little CYA.
Another update!
@jblizzle Thanks for the tip on shocking to mustard dose. That really helped the all day and night stay chlorinated until we got home.
Got home Saturday morning to a fairly clear pool. Was still a bit cloudy, but not too bad. Dosed the pool and ran the robot. Sunday did the same thing, although the pool was pretty much crystal clear! I am pretty sure I pass that part of the SLAM. I started my OCLT tonight as I have been seeing CC in the .5-1 range for a few days now. There is still some algae left on the bottom of the pool that the robot keeps missing, so I am going to manually vacuum that out. The numbers at the start of the OCLT:
FC: 16.5
CC: 0.5
TA: ~125
CH: 325-350 (I use the 10mL test for this, so it falls inbetween this range).
CYA: Unable to test atm as I am waiting on a reagent refill. Should be here this week. I think my CYA is fairly good as I am only losing a small amount of chlorine between doses as of now. I will probably still add some as my pool gets direct sun pretty much all day until sundown.
Hopefully I am almost done with the SLAM. It is going to feel super good.
@jblizzle Thanks for the tip on shocking to mustard dose. That really helped the all day and night stay chlorinated until we got home.
Got home Saturday morning to a fairly clear pool. Was still a bit cloudy, but not too bad. Dosed the pool and ran the robot. Sunday did the same thing, although the pool was pretty much crystal clear! I am pretty sure I pass that part of the SLAM. I started my OCLT tonight as I have been seeing CC in the .5-1 range for a few days now. There is still some algae left on the bottom of the pool that the robot keeps missing, so I am going to manually vacuum that out. The numbers at the start of the OCLT:
FC: 16.5
CC: 0.5
TA: ~125
CH: 325-350 (I use the 10mL test for this, so it falls inbetween this range).
CYA: Unable to test atm as I am waiting on a reagent refill. Should be here this week. I think my CYA is fairly good as I am only losing a small amount of chlorine between doses as of now. I will probably still add some as my pool gets direct sun pretty much all day until sundown.
Hopefully I am almost done with the SLAM. It is going to feel super good.