Hi guys,
Here's the issue. My water clarity has been declining. General cloudiness and, where I could once clearly see from the steps all away across to the light under the diving board, I can now barely make out said light. At night, with the light on, it's like there's a lot of dander floating in the water. Moreover, here are my recent numbers:
Complicating matters is our pool location. We're in an area known as "Breezy Bend" which must have been a mistranslation of the Cree word for "Prairie Hurricane Alley and Dandelion Fields". The dandelion dander we get is unbelievable.
When I had this problem last year (early on, before I discovered TFP) the pool store said I had chlorine demand and sold me a bucket of Burnout 3 (Bioguard iirc). Plus they got me to clean my cartridge filters even though they had only been running for a few weeks. Well the cartridges looked like rotting corpses from the Black Lagoon. After cleaning them and using the Burnout 3 I eventually got cleared up. Spent the summer using Silksticks and SmartShock. Overall not a bad summer - my CYA hovered around 70-80.
This year I started off with CalHypo to protect my CYA level and then learned here on TFP about how it would increase my calcium level. So I hit the local Canadian Tire and stocked up on 10.8% liquid chlorine. Which brings us to today. Cloudy (but still swimable) water and a drop in my FC from 8.0 last night to 4.5 this AM. Full disclosure - the pool must have gotten some sun in the early AM since the sun rises early this close to the 50th parallel so my morning OCLT wasn't quite by the book.
Opinions? Do a full SLAM? Keep up with the FC? What does the field have to say?
Follow up questions:
As so many have said in these parts in the past: thanks in advance!
m.
Here's the issue. My water clarity has been declining. General cloudiness and, where I could once clearly see from the steps all away across to the light under the diving board, I can now barely make out said light. At night, with the light on, it's like there's a lot of dander floating in the water. Moreover, here are my recent numbers:
11-Jun | 11-Jun | 10-Jun | 9-Jun | 7-Jun | 4-Jun | |
8:00 AM | 12:08 AM | 5:23 PM | 10:31 AM | 3:53 PM | 6:25 PM | |
| FC | 4.5 | 8 | 0.5 | 6 | 3.5 | 3 |
| CC | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| pH | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.8 |
| TA | 160 | 180 | 180 | 160 | ||
| CH | 325 | 350 | 300 | 300 | ||
| CYA | 70 | 70 | 70 |
Complicating matters is our pool location. We're in an area known as "Breezy Bend" which must have been a mistranslation of the Cree word for "Prairie Hurricane Alley and Dandelion Fields". The dandelion dander we get is unbelievable.
When I had this problem last year (early on, before I discovered TFP) the pool store said I had chlorine demand and sold me a bucket of Burnout 3 (Bioguard iirc). Plus they got me to clean my cartridge filters even though they had only been running for a few weeks. Well the cartridges looked like rotting corpses from the Black Lagoon. After cleaning them and using the Burnout 3 I eventually got cleared up. Spent the summer using Silksticks and SmartShock. Overall not a bad summer - my CYA hovered around 70-80.
This year I started off with CalHypo to protect my CYA level and then learned here on TFP about how it would increase my calcium level. So I hit the local Canadian Tire and stocked up on 10.8% liquid chlorine. Which brings us to today. Cloudy (but still swimable) water and a drop in my FC from 8.0 last night to 4.5 this AM. Full disclosure - the pool must have gotten some sun in the early AM since the sun rises early this close to the 50th parallel so my morning OCLT wasn't quite by the book.
Opinions? Do a full SLAM? Keep up with the FC? What does the field have to say?
Follow up questions:
- My pH meter I got with my TFT100 often disagrees with the k1000. Which do I trust?
- I'm running out of CYA reagent. Can that be ordered separately?
- How white do my cartridge filters need to be to be 'clean'? I get all the gunk out easily enough but they're certainly not sparkly white throughout.
As so many have said in these parts in the past: thanks in advance!
m.
