SLAM newbie help!

caitym

Member
Apr 10, 2024
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Auburn, Ca
I bought the TFT pro kit and I’m helping an elderly neighbor with a green pool. The pool is slightly cloudy, but mostly clear now. I just cleaned the filters and noticed quite a bit of pebbles from the pebble tec that have come off and had to be hosed out of the filter housing. I have a fiberglass pool, so I don’t know much about this. I lasted added liquid chlorine last night, so it hasn’t been a full 24 hours yet. What’s my next step? Should I adjust the CH or TA or leaving it all as is? The current readings are:
FC: 27ppm
CC:1
CH: 125
TA: 270

I brought the pool’s PH to 7.2 before starting SLAM, but the TA was very high still.
 
TA can be managed after SLAM as pH will rise quickly, necessitating very frequent muriatic acid additions. But that's not a short-term issue to worry about today.

Still registering a CC of 1 would lead me to think SLAM needs to continue, but SLAM process has three exit criteria.
SLAM Process

What type of filter? Some filtration options are slower than others.
 
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