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Certified106, 4 questions;What part of the country are you in?Are you on well water?Do you know the level of Calcium, or if you have hard water?What chemical brand and what are the ingredients of the chemical you are using to adjust pH/Alkalinity?
I would say stop shocking it so much, once maybe twice a week if that. To shock two or three times in a day is just wasting shock and adding to the TDS for the most part. I also wouldn't wipe it down with bleach water, nor shock it before it's been used, not really necessary IMO.
Again you over did it. I am assuming you are using PH down or decreaser? So what happened is you added so much that finally the PH dropped out. Now to have high alk and low ph does not make sense, but it will do it in a hot tub. My water comes straight out of a well, my PH/ALK is off the charts also. When I do a water change, I might add like a cup of decreaser, and wait a day. Then check and add one more. Then I just leave it alone. High PH/Alk is not the end of the world! I have never had scale and my water stays crystal clear, until I get lazy with sanitizer and it goes cloudy one me.
Quote from: Jacuzzi Jim on July 18, 2018, 09:10:11 am Again you over did it. I am assuming you are using PH down or decreaser? So what happened is you added so much that finally the PH dropped out. Now to have high alk and low ph does not make sense, but it will do it in a hot tub. My water comes straight out of a well, my PH/ALK is off the charts also. When I do a water change, I might add like a cup of decreaser, and wait a day. Then check and add one more. Then I just leave it alone. High PH/Alk is not the end of the world! I have never had scale and my water stays crystal clear, until I get lazy with sanitizer and it goes cloudy one me.Ok, I kind of wondered if I should dose it that much....... Chalk this one up to learning experiences also. If I can do it wrong I will LOL. Basincally when I changed the water I wasn't sure how long I could go with no shock and no SmartChlor while trying to adjust the water before I started having other problems. Before I left for work I shocked it and put the Smart Chlor in it and when I get home I will check it again if it needs it I will make a small adjustement and not check it unit the next morning. When you read the manuals it makes it sound like instant death by scale if the PH gets high at all.