Losing 3 ppm of chlorine a day

[Themadczar]

First, maintain shock level (from the Best Guess chart) until 1)water is clear (sounds like you're already there) 2) cc is 0.5 or less, and 3) you don't lose more than 1 ppm of FC overnight.

Ph is low but still within range, so focus on chlorine right now. Alk is nothing you need to worry about yet.

Question: was cya higher than 55 when you closed your pool?

[paigemetoo]

I don't remember. I know it was very low when I opened it. We have a mesh cover and a sump pump and had a good amount of precipitation so the water was diluted quite a bit. I used dichloride, as I always do, to open it and get my CYA back up. I did use a little too much as I usually keep it at around 40. Can't test my cc because I ran out and am waiting for it to come, but when I tested it 4 days ago, I had no cc, which is why I'm a little confused. The other thing that confuses me is that it was 7 after I add a gallon last night, 3 when I test it around 11am, and then stayed there all day- 85 and sunny. I would have expected it to drop some. I normally would have added bleach by now but I wanted to see what everyone had to say.

[paigemetoo]

I also ran the filter with some DE. Should I continue?

[Themadczar]

Bacteria may have eaten your cya from last year causing ammonia in the water. That doesn't change what you need to do. Shock as I mentioned before. If you can't test for FC and cc right now, get a cheap oto test kit and keep it off the chart dark yellow.

[paigemetoo]

I can test for FC. I just got all new regents and got/ordered R-0002 instead of R-0003 (oops) so that's all I'm waiting on. It's a shame I can't buy it at a pool store. I'm at 3 and just added 6 gallons and I will test again in a couple hours to make sure I'm above 20 before I go to bed.

Thx!

[swimdaddy]

I too have had a cloudy or green pool and a CC reading of 0. Not sure how good the CC test is in the Taylor kits, but I still test. However, if your pool LOOKS like it has a problem, it has a problem, despite no or low CC reading.

[paigemetoo]

That's the thing Swimdaddy, my pool looks beautiful! Just eating chlorine. 20 last night, 17 this morning. Added a gallon. 2 hrs later 16. Added 2 gallons. 2 hrs later 16...uggggg!