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so that explains why they said to put stain and scale in once per week... is there any products that actually REDUCE the hardness?
Well my Aquatest strips are reading in the 300ppm range, but it just says HARDNESS, does that automatically mean Calcium hardness?what's weird is that on the back of the Aquacheck bottle it says the OK range is like 250-400 or something for Hardness..but on my BioGuard print out and the stain and scale bottle it says the OK hardness is 100-150ppmso this doesn't make sense to me, are we comparing apples to apples?
and so basically people like me with hard well water once hte water goes into the spa it will ALWAYS be hard, you just need to use the stain and scale chemical to protect the components from scale buildup? or do most people with hard water actually try to dilute the water with soft water (no idea where they are supposed to get that amount of soft water from?)
well after shocking 3 hours ago, it is now at ph of 8.8, free chlorine is 9.5 and alk is UP to 227 (not sure why the Alk and PH rose higher after putting the PH Decreaser in there?)