Total chlorine is 2.5, free is 0.3. TA 133 ph 7.3, phosphate zero. Water cloudy afternoon being clear all summer.
My cya has been 50-60. On this test, it’s 11. I thought cya doesn’t go anywhere. So I’m told it’s because my free chlorine is low and it is all bound up. Is this true???
Pool store said to buy a powder shock w 78% chlorine w cya. I said can I just use non chlorine shock (micro floc) to free up the chlorine and then add liquid chlorine to increase chlorine? They said it won’t work. I’m not sure what the difference is if I just add liquid chlorine over the powder chlorine shock. They also told me liquid chlorine had cya. I know it doesn’t. I’m careful with cya since it was just high at 60. So I’d rather do liquid assuming the cya comes back up when I shock? Is this true?
Do you know how my cya went to 11? When I opened the pool it was 16. They had me at cya. It went to 50….then I learned about high cya needing higher chlorine. I have a frog system that has a chlorine feed and we keep our levels 1–3 but obviously infuses cya. I wanted the cya to be 30 So I drained the pool in proportions and got it to 40. Since then, it has been around 50-60 w each test for 2 months. We had a busy swim weekend , pool got cloudy, chlorine got bound, and now it’s 11? Can cya get bound up ? I don’t want to add too much more.
Am I correct that the oxidation from the shock is what frees up the chlorine ? So if I use non chlorine microfloc shock, that 0.3 should go to 2.5
My cya has been 50-60. On this test, it’s 11. I thought cya doesn’t go anywhere. So I’m told it’s because my free chlorine is low and it is all bound up. Is this true???
Pool store said to buy a powder shock w 78% chlorine w cya. I said can I just use non chlorine shock (micro floc) to free up the chlorine and then add liquid chlorine to increase chlorine? They said it won’t work. I’m not sure what the difference is if I just add liquid chlorine over the powder chlorine shock. They also told me liquid chlorine had cya. I know it doesn’t. I’m careful with cya since it was just high at 60. So I’d rather do liquid assuming the cya comes back up when I shock? Is this true?
Do you know how my cya went to 11? When I opened the pool it was 16. They had me at cya. It went to 50….then I learned about high cya needing higher chlorine. I have a frog system that has a chlorine feed and we keep our levels 1–3 but obviously infuses cya. I wanted the cya to be 30 So I drained the pool in proportions and got it to 40. Since then, it has been around 50-60 w each test for 2 months. We had a busy swim weekend , pool got cloudy, chlorine got bound, and now it’s 11? Can cya get bound up ? I don’t want to add too much more.
Am I correct that the oxidation from the shock is what frees up the chlorine ? So if I use non chlorine microfloc shock, that 0.3 should go to 2.5