Negative csi to stop scaling

[jesse-99]

If you do have high TA fill water, this works to your advantage. By using the aeration features of your pool, your pH gets forced up, allowing you to add acid which in turn lowers TA.

I disagree that high TA works to my advantage. My pH is going up one way or the other because of all the aeration but it would certainly go up a lot slower with lower TA from my autu-fill, not to mention getting TA down from 330 is one huge PITA and requires spending a TON on MA. I'd *much* rather have a lower TA auto-fill, like 120, to help buffer against the pH rise than the 330 TA auto-fills I have right now. In other words, I'd rather start at 120, as opposed to trying to GET to 120 (from 330).

 

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

Reread my post. I'm not saying that high TA works to your advantage. I'm saying that having a pool with features that create aeration allows you to lower and stabilize TA levels. The aeration works to your advantage.

 

[jesse-99]

Ah gotcha, I understand your point now... thanks for clarifying.

 

[TJSgarlata]

If you have water features that create aeration, then you'll be doing what I'm doing, and dosing MA a lot and regularly.

Yeah I use artic coolers every night to keep my pool below 90°

Increasing calcium levels will further complicate matters for you

I literally just added CH to get my pool to 400ppm cause my tiles were bleeding calcium

What I need is a lot of fresh rain water To flush out some of this Alkalinity, but mother nature hasn't been nice to us lately. The PH dump is lowering TA 20ppm and aeration is raising PH every 3 days. 7gallons of MA in 21days should do the trick