Hi everyone,
We are new pool owners. This is our second season and we opened the pool a week ago. The chemicals seem to be balanced except for CYA. Currently using granular bio guard to bring up the CYA to around 30-40.
We have a 14k gallon SWG pool with a vinyl liner. Hayward 900 aquarite 940 cell. Hayward Tristar 2 speed pump and Pentair TR60LV filter.
Current levels
FC- 3
CC-0
CH- 110
ALK-90
PH-7.4
CYA-10
last season and this season we seem to form these very small white looking things around the pool edges. I apologize if this seems silly but I am really not sure if this is just some debris flying around our neighborhood and entering the pool or if something different is going on. When i pick them up and try to squeeze to crush them nothing happens. The only way I can describe the texture is styrofoam like.This started before I added the Chlorine stabilizer. I am including pictures here.
I also want to ask about the cya levels. I added 28 oz of granular biogusrd to the skimmer slowly yesterday (read many posts on tfp and the majority put in a sock but several major supporters put in the skimmer so I did the latter). Pump has been running 24 hours. I just did the measurements using the Taylor kit, mixing, shaking for 30 seconds and looking down at the tube at waist level and it still shows probably much less than 30 because the dot is very visible. The 10 is from an electronic reader done by our pool guy a week ago and another one done at the store. What am I doing wrong? Wait more to test? Watched several YouTube videos on how to properly take the measurement as well.
All help is appreciated! Thank you!
We are new pool owners. This is our second season and we opened the pool a week ago. The chemicals seem to be balanced except for CYA. Currently using granular bio guard to bring up the CYA to around 30-40.
We have a 14k gallon SWG pool with a vinyl liner. Hayward 900 aquarite 940 cell. Hayward Tristar 2 speed pump and Pentair TR60LV filter.
Current levels
FC- 3
CC-0
CH- 110
ALK-90
PH-7.4
CYA-10
last season and this season we seem to form these very small white looking things around the pool edges. I apologize if this seems silly but I am really not sure if this is just some debris flying around our neighborhood and entering the pool or if something different is going on. When i pick them up and try to squeeze to crush them nothing happens. The only way I can describe the texture is styrofoam like.This started before I added the Chlorine stabilizer. I am including pictures here.
I also want to ask about the cya levels. I added 28 oz of granular biogusrd to the skimmer slowly yesterday (read many posts on tfp and the majority put in a sock but several major supporters put in the skimmer so I did the latter). Pump has been running 24 hours. I just did the measurements using the Taylor kit, mixing, shaking for 30 seconds and looking down at the tube at waist level and it still shows probably much less than 30 because the dot is very visible. The 10 is from an electronic reader done by our pool guy a week ago and another one done at the store. What am I doing wrong? Wait more to test? Watched several YouTube videos on how to properly take the measurement as well.
All help is appreciated! Thank you!
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