SW pool clear all spring, now just a touch cloudy

[PoolStored]

Keep going!

 

[jdsaengine]

just about there. Water is pretty clear now. Last night did the overnight test, SWG off and cover off. Went from 15 down to 13 give or take. So I dumped in another 1/2 gal of shock at 8 this morning. Back up to 15 this noon. Will see how tonight goes.

Someone else asked how safe to at least sit in the pool with FC up at 15 ?? Going to be almost 90 today and Wife is getting antsy to get wet!!!
Pool at noon today

 

[PoolStored]

Pool is safe up to SLAM level FC, if you can see the bottom...go swim.

 

[jdsaengine]

Great, thanks for all your help on doing my first SLAM. Pool will be crowded this Saturday with the whole family so I know to keep the FC up pretty high ahead of time.

 

[PoolStored]

You can test and add FC during the swim. Keep it in range. Test, Add, wait 5 minutes, go swim!

You can also turn your SWG up. I leave mine at 15-20% 24x7. When we open to swim, I just turn it up to 50% and back to 20% when done. My FC is same at beginning and end of swim. YMMV.

 

[jdsaengine]

Still loosing about 2 ppm of FC overnight (14 down to 12) so I guess I continue the SLAM and get the FC back up closer to 20 today. Water looks pretty good, but I see white flaky stuff on the bottom this morning

 

[PoolStored]

How often are you testing and replacing FC?

 

[jdsaengine]

morning, noon and 8 at night. I just dumped another 70 oz of shock per pool math to bring FC from 12 up to 20 for today.
Is the white flakes dead crud??

 

[PoolStored]

Can you do more often that that? Even in the evening from 5-11 every two hours will help.

Post pics of the white flakes. Get some out if you can, add a drop of muriatic acid and see if they fizzle...

 

[jdsaengine]

will do. Robot picking up the flakes right now. Fizzle means what?
I know I have extreme high phosphates, 2230. since last year but have not addressed that. Seems like TFP does not get to worried about high phosphates.

 

[Newdude]

Seems like TFP does not get to worried about high phosphates.

With no algae, alage food is a moot point.

Put a big buffet out in the middle of the Sahara dessert. Ain't nobody showing up to eat it.

 

[PoolStored]

Fizzes when you add muriatic...

 

[jdsaengine]

here are photos of the white stuff in the robot basket and on the ground when I washed the basket out. And yes the white stuff fizzled when I poured a little acid on it.

 

[PoolStored]

Calcium. We can fix that after the SLAM is done...

 

[jdsaengine]

10-4, prior to SLAM my calcium numbers were lower(150) than the target range of 300.

 

[mknauss]

Appears to have a blue color. Would imply copper in the water.

 

[jdsaengine]

The photo makes it blue, its really snow white. BTW I did a calcium hardness test yesterday and it was 350.

still SLAMing. FC was 22 this morning and we had an inch of rain last night added to the pool so will try another overnight loss test tonight.