Amonia tested at fish store using drops is 5ppm.
Amonia tested at pool store using test strips is 3 - 6ppm
Amonia tested at pool store using test strips is 3 - 6ppm
When adding 12.5% sodium hypochlorite (liquid chlorine) to a pool to oxidize ammonia, every gallon of liquid chlorine will create the equivalent of 14 ounces of 31.45% hydrochloric acid.
10 gallons of 12.5% liquid chlorine added to 25,000 gallons of pool water with ammonia will lower the TA by about 22 ppm or the equivalent of adding 140 ounces of full strength 31.45% muriatic acid.
Every 9 gallons of 12.5% liquid chlorine is equivalent to about 1 gallon of 31.45% acid.
(5) 7 ounce tabs will lower the TA by about 6.7 ppm from the acidity of the tabs plus another 4.2 ppm from oxidizing ammonia for a total of about 11 ppm.
Assuming another 10 gallons of liquid chlorine and the 5 tabs, the TA could drop another 33 ppm.
How is the water looking, is it still green and cloudy?
Ok, just keep the chlorine up and this should break soon.
TA is now about 105
btw, we have 5x Trichlor pucks currently in the in-line chlorine feeder turned about half-way up.
A bleached liner would be faded blue or white, not yellow.Any idea what the mild yellowish on liner may be? Hope we didn't bleach the liner.
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Any idea what the mild yellowish on liner may be? Hope we didn't bleach the liner.
Probably iron. Try some ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) on a spot.
It's the chewable tablet, rub it on the area (if you can reach it)Where do you get liquid vitamin c?
Your signature says you use well water =)We didn't put any well water in, infact we had to remove some water due to all the rain.
The Vit C is to check for something else =)Ammonia should be gone. Ammonia measured 5ppm at fish store, we used about 15 gallons of 12.5% liquid chlorine, added 2 gallons every hour or two until the CC level dropped and FC started rising.
This yellowish tint on liner is by the bottom edges where pool floor meets pool walls, it goes about 1 foot up the walls mainly in the deep end. Pool brush and Polaris don't remove it.
FC is around 1.5 to 3ppm, CC is 0.5, PH is 7.2 and TA is around 110.