Need to know what to start with.

[Dtkokay]

Yes it is granular. I put in it an old pair of pantyhose, but it certainly didn't take days. It probably only took an hour at the most and I put in a little over two pounds. I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed that the pool doesn't stain

Okay good! I recently added 2 pounds via pantyhose and it took 3 days to fully dissolve.

Your TA and pH are fine, but CH is high. But I don’t know what kind of pool you have (vinyl, in ground, etc). Fill out your signature when you have a chance. It really helps people here help you.

 

[UncleChimney]

Yeah we have some pretty hard water here, is there anything that I can do to lower the CH?

 

[UncleChimney]

If u wish to begin the SLAM Process as you stated the water was starting to turn.
Just assume the amount of cya u added is in the water & use the FC/CYA Levels
To determine your slam level.

Good info on that link, hopefully I can avoid SLAMming it for the time being, but if in a couple days I'm not cleared up I'll give that a shot, thank you!

 

[Jeff J.]

Yeah we have some pretty hard water here, is there anything that I can do to lower the CH?

The only way is to drain, but then you're refilling with the hard water.

 

[Dtkokay]

Yeah we have some pretty hard water here, is there anything that I can do to lower the CH?

Now that I can see your signature (thanks), I don’t think CH matters for an above ground pool. Check out the ABCs section of the Pool School section on this website.

 

[UncleChimney]

I was stoked this morning when I woke up and the water was crystal clear, thanks!!! I guess I gotta test some numbers today eh?

 

[Mdragger88]

Yes !
FC
Cc
Ph
Alk
Ch - u already know
Cya- probably won’t show up on the test yet (calculated @ 20)
You may wanna do an Overnight Chlorine Loss Test
to be sure u have nothing growing.
if u pass that u may wanna up your stabilizer to 30 or so.

 

[zea3]

You can manage a high calcium level in a vinyl liner pool, but if you don't pay attention you may develop calcium scale. Just make sure you keep the pH on the 7.0-7.5 end of the pH range and you should be fine.

 

[UncleChimney]

This is an interesting thread to me since OP has the same number of gallons I do. If starting with no chlorine in the pool at all, is 1 gallon really enough to get to 5 ppm? I'll be doing a baqua to chlorine conversion and so I know I need to get to 15 initially. No idea how much liquid chlorine that will take - have to start working with Pool Math.

Plus you live in the same county!! I'm in Geigertown, How about you @anthonypool89 ?

I took reading again tonight after adding one gallon of liquid chlorine and a little over two pounds of the stabilizer and these were the readings tonight:

FC- 3
CC- 0
TC- 3
CH- Didn't retest, imagine it's going to stay at 500
TA- 100
CYA- <20 It was less than twenty, but by the time that the whole tube was filled I could not see the black dot, so it's just below 20
Ph- in between 7.2-7.5

It looks like I need to add some more stabilizer and liquid chlorine to bring those numbers up slightly which I will do tomorrow. How important is the CC#?

 

[anthonypool89]

With all due respect, I prefer not to mention my actual home town on the open forum, but you're certainly not all that far from me - south on Rt. 61. Small world....