What Now?

[tanyarejoyce]

I am really struggling with my pool chemistry this year.

I have a 50,000 gal. in-ground w/liner.

The pool was very cloudy and ph and akalinity were high. Chlorine was non-existent and CYA was very low.

I have been using muratic acid trying to get the ph and the alkalinity worked out before adding the CYA.

Two days ago I added 2 gallons as opposed to the 4 gallons the pool store recommended. I am glad that is all I added as my ph plummeted much more than it should have according to their directions.

Things have remained static for the last 24 hours and I have the alkalinity at 90 ppm, ph is 6.8.

So the alkalinity is okay, right?

What to do at this point to get the ph up? Add borax or aerate? If borax, how much? I have never had to bring ph up before and haven't used borax before.

[Seahunt]

Your alkalinity sounds good. Go to http://www.poolcalculator.com/ to figure out how much chemical to add to raise the PH to the desired level. Are you sure your pool is 50k gallons? That's a really big pool. Just want to make sure as the calculations from the poolcalculator will be based on the gallons.

Post your CYA reading also so you can get accruate feedback.

Are you adding chlorine? How much and what kind?

I am really struggling with my pool chemistry this year.

I have a 50,000 gal. in-ground w/liner.

The pool was very cloudy and ph and akalinity were high. Chlorine was non-existent and CYA was very low.

I have been using muratic acid trying to get the ph and the alkalinity worked out before adding the CYA.

Two days ago I added 2 gallons as opposed to the 4 gallons the pool store recommended. I am glad that is all I added as my ph plummeted much more than it should have according to their directions.

Things have remained static for the last 24 hours and I have the alkalinity at 90 ppm, ph is 6.8.

So the alkalinity is okay, right?

What to do at this point to get the ph up? Add borax or aerate? If borax, how much? I have never had to bring ph up before and haven't used borax before.