Over the winter with all the rains we lost a huge amount of CYA went from 50 to 0 black dot test filled all the way up still visible. It's the first time I've measured in about 6 months since the water was always looking good and I had automated the pump and SWG so I didn't pay much attention (lesson Learned). I did add 4 bags of salt over the winter because SWG was complaining but it doesn't make sense that the rain would cause that much of a loss as there was no overflowing so that is the first issue. Ordering new re-agents as they were pretty old.
Currently doing a bucket test to rule out leaks but the drop over the last month seems normal to me. Even a leak in my mind shouldn't cause that much loss of CYA unless its an obvious massive leak.
Monday a gopher tunneled through our skimmer sidewall and dumped a bunch of dirt in the skimmer which over pressurized the filter and busted a pipe inside so I just installed a new/used filter (was much cheaper than repairing) but the pump has been off for 3 days and algae is forming. We have some yellow on the shaded walls and brownish spots on the steps and in the shallow end and the vacuum hose is turning brown.
Not sure where to start. Should I perform a slam with the current CYA levels to save on chlorine or should I raise the CYA then Slam? I have the powdered shock chlorine arriving next Wednesday but I'll put in some liquid for now and keep it elevated until the shock arrives.
On the bright side I caught 5 gophers over the past 2 days so that shouldn't be a problem for a while at least.
Currently doing a bucket test to rule out leaks but the drop over the last month seems normal to me. Even a leak in my mind shouldn't cause that much loss of CYA unless its an obvious massive leak.
Monday a gopher tunneled through our skimmer sidewall and dumped a bunch of dirt in the skimmer which over pressurized the filter and busted a pipe inside so I just installed a new/used filter (was much cheaper than repairing) but the pump has been off for 3 days and algae is forming. We have some yellow on the shaded walls and brownish spots on the steps and in the shallow end and the vacuum hose is turning brown.
Not sure where to start. Should I perform a slam with the current CYA levels to save on chlorine or should I raise the CYA then Slam? I have the powdered shock chlorine arriving next Wednesday but I'll put in some liquid for now and keep it elevated until the shock arrives.
On the bright side I caught 5 gophers over the past 2 days so that shouldn't be a problem for a while at least.
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