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    1st pool opening

    Hello, I’m doing my own pool opening this year. Water is greenish and I’ve brushed and vacuumed along with backwashing sand filter. My readings are as follows: pH- 7.4 Alkalinity- 130 CYA- below 30 (water wasn’t cloudy at 30 mark on test) Do I need to get my CYA level up to 50-70 before doing...
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    High TA

    My TA level is 200 and I have scaling. I’m reading that the way to reduce this to the recommended 60-80 mark for my pool is to add muriatic acid which will reduce TA and pH over multiple times while aerating water to bring pH back up. Am I correct this is really the only way to get TA decreased?
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    No chlorine

    Can’t keep chlorine in my pool (saltwater/SWG) and what I’ve been reading says to SLAM to achieve breakpoint chlorination. Trying to determine how much 10% liquid chlorine I would need to add at once to achieve the 10x level. My CC reading at pool store most recently was .15 but I am waiting on...