I'd love some input on troubleshooting FC levels that just won't hold. We have a Breeze 540 that was installed spring of 2016.
At the beginning of May I had a slight algae problem, then had a successful SLAM in the middle of the month, let the FC float down to around 5 ppm on 5/17 hoping to then maintain there. We increased the pump run time to 10 hours thinking we were smooth sailing now with some increased output, but since then I've tested every 4ish days and we went from...
5/17 - 5
5/21 - 2
5/25 - 1 (waited too long between these tests...babies consuming daily life and totally in denial about this problem)
5/31 - Basically nothing
Of course there's a major bleach shortage so my attempts to keep it stable (while dealing with said denial) using liquid chlorine have been mostly pointless. My pH tends to rise over the course of the week so we keep acid on hand to keep it down around 7.5. CYA is 70. Salt is 5400.
Are my cells bad? We probably have not properly cared for them. I can't figure out what else would make maintaining FC such a huge headache!
At the beginning of May I had a slight algae problem, then had a successful SLAM in the middle of the month, let the FC float down to around 5 ppm on 5/17 hoping to then maintain there. We increased the pump run time to 10 hours thinking we were smooth sailing now with some increased output, but since then I've tested every 4ish days and we went from...
5/17 - 5
5/21 - 2
5/25 - 1 (waited too long between these tests...babies consuming daily life and totally in denial about this problem)
5/31 - Basically nothing
Of course there's a major bleach shortage so my attempts to keep it stable (while dealing with said denial) using liquid chlorine have been mostly pointless. My pH tends to rise over the course of the week so we keep acid on hand to keep it down around 7.5. CYA is 70. Salt is 5400.
Are my cells bad? We probably have not properly cared for them. I can't figure out what else would make maintaining FC such a huge headache!
