Hot climates = option of high CYA?

[Furbabyvet]

dhanger:
I'm also in Phoenix and still working on straightening out a pool I had royally messed up by following pool store advice. My CYA was over 250 a couple months ago. After partial water changes, we got it down around 30-40. I am currently losing 2.5-3.5 ppm of FC during most days. I'm using just a couple of trichlor pucks at a time to slowly increase my CYA, but not sure what my goal is. Not >250, though, that's for sure.

I did just add borax to 40 ppm and may be seeing a slightly decreased FC demand. I am going to start putting our solar cover on the pool to conserve FC, though not sure I can stand to swim in 95 degree water . If the FC demand goes down significantly, I will go buy a solid colored cover. I'd love to avoid worrying about algae and adding LC every day! SWCG is not in our budget this year.