Happy Easter all!!
I have posted about this problem before, but I guess I'm just too thick to get it.
After a successful SLAM...... ( including OCLT )
For the last several weeks, I have been keeping my FC at 6-8 with a CYA of 55-60 continuously via approx. every other day additions of liquid CL (approx. 80ml every 2 days ) a ph of 7.6-7.8 and alkal of approx. 90. My pool is in the full florida sun all day and I do get a fair amount of leaves daily. ( enough so that there are almost always some oak leaves on the wall at the slower moving portions of the waterline every day....).
I can keep the bottom mostly clean via Navigator, but keeping the surface totally leave-free is next to impossible.
I have had virtually no CC over the last 3 weeks. My water is crystal clear.
The other day I noticed what I thought was a greenish tint on the wall at a corner where the water moves a little slower. I shrugged it off, as I believed with my test #'s, there was no way I could be getting algae.
Well, lo and behold, went out this morning and BAM, green algae on that corner.....
The only thing I have not been doing is brushing, because it's a giant pool, and well, I'm kinda lazy. I thought with my numbers as good as they were, no need, right?
Duraleigh had told my once that it's possible to have 0 CC and still have algae. I didn't understand that at the time, and obviously, still don't.
Now I believe him.
My understanding is that FC combines with organics and nasties and forms chloramines/cc, and when the level of cc gets high enuf, its time to SLAM.
But what I don't get, is, if I have adequate daily FC which is supposed to be consuming any emerging algae, why don't I show any CC? Is'nt algae a form of organic?
I guess I've been depending too heavily on my numbers alone, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get admonished for not pushin that brush, but can someone please explain why my understanding/misunderstanding of this FC/CC/Algae thing is flawed?
BTW: I brushed the pool this morning with my Easter bunny ears on, and started SLAM. I will continue the SLAM until I can pass an OCLT as you have advised.
Thanks all,
Dave.
I have posted about this problem before, but I guess I'm just too thick to get it.
After a successful SLAM...... ( including OCLT )
For the last several weeks, I have been keeping my FC at 6-8 with a CYA of 55-60 continuously via approx. every other day additions of liquid CL (approx. 80ml every 2 days ) a ph of 7.6-7.8 and alkal of approx. 90. My pool is in the full florida sun all day and I do get a fair amount of leaves daily. ( enough so that there are almost always some oak leaves on the wall at the slower moving portions of the waterline every day....).
I can keep the bottom mostly clean via Navigator, but keeping the surface totally leave-free is next to impossible.
I have had virtually no CC over the last 3 weeks. My water is crystal clear.
The other day I noticed what I thought was a greenish tint on the wall at a corner where the water moves a little slower. I shrugged it off, as I believed with my test #'s, there was no way I could be getting algae.
Well, lo and behold, went out this morning and BAM, green algae on that corner.....
The only thing I have not been doing is brushing, because it's a giant pool, and well, I'm kinda lazy. I thought with my numbers as good as they were, no need, right?
Duraleigh had told my once that it's possible to have 0 CC and still have algae. I didn't understand that at the time, and obviously, still don't.
Now I believe him.
My understanding is that FC combines with organics and nasties and forms chloramines/cc, and when the level of cc gets high enuf, its time to SLAM.
But what I don't get, is, if I have adequate daily FC which is supposed to be consuming any emerging algae, why don't I show any CC? Is'nt algae a form of organic?
I guess I've been depending too heavily on my numbers alone, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get admonished for not pushin that brush, but can someone please explain why my understanding/misunderstanding of this FC/CC/Algae thing is flawed?
BTW: I brushed the pool this morning with my Easter bunny ears on, and started SLAM. I will continue the SLAM until I can pass an OCLT as you have advised.
Thanks all,
Dave.