Hello there. I need some advice. I opened my pool a few weeks ago. The pool is always green/brown at opening. The weather here in RI has been rainy/thunderstorms and humid pretty much every day and nobody was swimming so I have not been on top of the chemicals for about 10/12 days.
A couple of weeks ago, The CYA was 16 according to the pool store (I do have the Taylor K2006 test kit but I have a hard time w cya test) so I added 4 lbs stabilizer- did not test after adding
Well the pool turned green then brown from neglect, even smelled like a swamp.
Last night I decided to tackle the pool.
The ph was sky high so I added muriatic acid to bring it down to 7.2
I added 6 gallons of shock to begin with and added about 4 more through night. Filter running. The chlorine was getting "eaten up" very quickly.
I thought about it and concluded it must be ammonia. I tested the water and it appeared the may be a slight amount but then I looked at the forum and it said that you shouldnt test for ammonia if there is chlorine in the pool.
This morning the free chlorine was 7. The pool very cloudy.
I decided to test the cya and I couldnt get a reading so I figured I would go to the pool store( they use a computer) and see what there results are.
FC 4
TC 4.73
ph 7.1
TA 59
CH 138
CYA 5
Phosphates 1081
Im still learning but I figure I have ammonia since the cya decreased so drastically .Can anybody give me some advice here?
A couple of weeks ago, The CYA was 16 according to the pool store (I do have the Taylor K2006 test kit but I have a hard time w cya test) so I added 4 lbs stabilizer- did not test after adding
Well the pool turned green then brown from neglect, even smelled like a swamp.
Last night I decided to tackle the pool.
The ph was sky high so I added muriatic acid to bring it down to 7.2
I added 6 gallons of shock to begin with and added about 4 more through night. Filter running. The chlorine was getting "eaten up" very quickly.
I thought about it and concluded it must be ammonia. I tested the water and it appeared the may be a slight amount but then I looked at the forum and it said that you shouldnt test for ammonia if there is chlorine in the pool.
This morning the free chlorine was 7. The pool very cloudy.
I decided to test the cya and I couldnt get a reading so I figured I would go to the pool store( they use a computer) and see what there results are.
FC 4
TC 4.73
ph 7.1
TA 59
CH 138
CYA 5
Phosphates 1081
Im still learning but I figure I have ammonia since the cya decreased so drastically .Can anybody give me some advice here?