Nooooooo!!!! I was afraid of that!
Leslies Taylor K-2005 equivalent
FC 1
TC 2
CC 1
Ph 7.2
TA 80
CH 140
CYA 52
I tried an acid demand test but it went yellow and thats not what the directions said it was supposed to do.
I shocked yesterday morning.
A couple things: 1) You have the wrong test kit. The K-2005 is a DPD test kit. The K-2006 has the FAS-DPD test. They are not the same, no matter what the clerk at Leslies says. It's too bad we didn't discover this fact when you were encouraged to buy the full refill set in the first reply to your first post a week ago. The good news is that you can order
just the FAS-DPD test and convert your kit. If you haven't ordered refills yet, it will probably be cheaper to order a whole new TF100 from that site than get the FAS-DPD test and refills for everything else.
2) The acid demand test went yellow because you don't need acid. That's just one way to figure out how much to add. Plugging numbers into poolmath is faster and easier.
3) No more Algaecides. Algaecides work better as a preventative than as a cure in the same way that wiping a surface with Lysol stops the spread of cold germs but drinking Lysol won't cure a cold. Algaecide will not clear a green pool. Period. Some algaecides have copper compounds, which are great algaecides but stain the walls and leave blondes with green hair. Others have ammonia compounds, which react with bleach. So you add two different chemicals and they neutralize each other. Why bother?
Your pool did not go green in one day, and it's been green for a while. It will not get clear overnight. Even with the proper test kit and following the
SLAM Process perfectly, it will take about a week to get a murky green pool clear.
If you need some encouragement, or just some pictures, see
Recovering my old inspirational links
