Very Cloudy/Foaming issues

[Apatton]

I accidentally added a 0 to my TA figures yesterday. Haven't been getting much sleep due to the newborn, my bad...

FC - .4
CC - 1.2
TA - 100
CH - 500
pH - 7.0

Question about the Calcium Hardness...when I take the test, it indicates that my color will turn red after adding the R 0011. Mine keeps turning purple; like royal purple. I went ahead and continued adding drops until it turned blue and it took 25. That seemed excessive, especially considering I did the 10ml test.

I purchased an additional chlorine floater and some liquid chlorine to help boost my chlorine levels, will be adding that to the pool here in a moment.

[CarlD]

Um, you're still doing the CH test wrong.
1) You MUST use the 25 ml line. It's the FAS-DPD test that you do to the 10ml line
2) Not sure what purple means...you may have no CH, but I won't swear to it.
3) If you added 25 drops of R-0012, that means you have CH of 250, not 500. But if you did it with a 10ml sample of water, I don't know WHAT the heck it means!
4) On your FAS-DPD test (FC/CC) use the 10ml line and each drop counts for .5, not .2. It's good enough.

[Apatton]

It says that if high CH is anticipated, to use 10, and multiply drops by 25. I skipped it the first time since it was purple, but decided to do it this time...eventually turned blue with 25 drops which is actually 625 apologies

[BigDave]

@CarlD: The K-2006 has instructions for a 10ml CH test in the lid.
@Apatton: CH of 625 is quite high. Do you fill with very hard water or was it something else?

[Apatton]

I suppose my task today will be to test my hose water. Will report back with findings this evening.

[CarlD]

Thanks BD.

Yeah 625 is super-high. Ben has a way of reducing it...I think it involves (counter-intuitively) putting lots of Cal-Hypo in the skimmer.

[Apatton]

Just tested my tap water, it's at 300 ppm CH.

CarlD - I'm open for any and all suggestions on how to reduce my CH, hopefully this will resolve my cloudiness issues.