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I just received my borate test strips in the mail today. Just for fun I tested the water because I have never added borax to my pool. I believe it read I have 80 in my pool. How is that? Purple is 0 and tan is 80 so there's no mistake. What adds borates beside borax?

I am lowing my alkalinity and upping my ph with aerationtion. I tested this morning for ph and it read 7.4 but after I left it and walked away for about 5 min I came back and it read 7.8 should it change? Will it just continually go higher if left out in tester? Which reading do I go with to add...

I am in a slam currently and it's been 10 days. I can see the bottom now and wanted to give my pool an added help for the cloud. I am having a hard time finding ditomaceous early. I have food grade at home but didn't think that was for pools. I didn't find crawling insect killer containing...

Hope I am posting in the correct place. I did not close my pool clear in the fall. I visited the pool store as I always do to open. UNTIL I found this site. I plan to follow the BBB method from now on. I started slamming my pool On 5-23 after these readings chemicals read 5-23 fc 7.5 cc 1 ph 7.4...