Switching from Triclor Pucks to Liquid Chlorine and now have green looking water in my inline chlorinator

[Esherman]

Thanks to all for chiming in. I've been on the liquid chlorine now for weeks...no more tablets...it has been VERY hard to keep the my chlorine at 7-9 where i should be for my cya level of 70-80...one problem seems to be the liquid chlorine needs to be very new to work well. In Houston, Tx and it's been in the 90's for a while now...so I'm using a lot of liquid chlorine everyday and it's hard to keep up the chlorine level up where it should be...10% strength ....my plan is to just keep managing it this summer...so far so good...no algae and pool looks great....this winter, my plan is to slowly replace water with new water over several months to lower my CYA....then next summer, it won't take me near as much liquid chlorine each day

Having same issue with high CYA. This summer switched to liquid chlorine. Leslie's 12%, with app and coupon runs about $4 gallon. Been draining and refilling water every week. Still CYA at around 90-100, so have to keep adding chlorine regularly or algae starts to form. I'm in NJ. In line chlorinator empty just letting water circulate through.

 

[setsailsoon]

Hold,

Welcome aboard and congrats on the switch to liquid chlorine. You've started down the best pool care road you can do.

Sounds like a good plan but I would look for refillable jug chlorine. You can get this at several different places in the Houston area. It's 10-12% and usually less than $2 per gallon. Also, consider changing out your CYA right now. Keeping it less than 50 ppm will make your life a lot easier. It's not really that hard if you put a sump pump in the pool and just add water to keep up. Add water to the opposite end of the sump pump. One of our experts has helped hundreds through this. @mknauss

Hope this helps.

Chris

 

[IceShadow]

Just a heads-up - high CYA will actually decrease the amount you lose to the sun daily. A lower CYA will have a lower FC target but will have a higher per-day FC loss.