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tubin:
well i had my first water mishap  :-[

my friday routine of chemical additions was forgotten and realized on monday---yuck

we hadn't used it over the weekend, hence probably why i had forgotten about it.  so i open the spa up and found the water had gotten cloudy and had that unique low ph smell to it.  the water was cloudy to the point where i could still see the bottom foot well, but just barely.

i immediately shocked with mps, ran the jets a while, then added my dichlor, scum digester, and  metal x as usual.  

the next day, it was still the same (i think) so i shocked again with mps, added some dichlor and circulated a while.  that night, it still looked the same so i ran some super blue through it, wiped down the sides, and ran the jets for an hour for quicker filtration.

well, it cleared up some since then and i rinsed off the filter yesterday, but still has a haze to the water today (thurs)

is this normal to take this long to clear up the water on a 24hr filtration spa w/ozonator?

thanks!

tubin:
well, i checked it again today, added a dab of dichlor, and it is almost back to normal.  

i can still see a little haze in the water, but not much.

do spas usually take that 3-4 days to go from cloudy to clear?

empolgation:
I'd like to know if it's normal to have a spa go "yuck" so quickly.
So you didn't add routine chemicals for 9 days? (the previous friday being the last - and being only 2-3 days late with the next)

What are you suppose to do when you go on vacation and no one is around to add chems?
Expect to come home to yuck ???

tony:
Next time, try shocking with dichlor.  Generally, cloudy water like that is because of lack of sanitizer.  The smell is also indicitive.  A dichlor shock will super sanitize and probably will clear you up a little quicker.  Then filter, filter, filter.  You have to clean up all those dead micro organisms.

Mark_Vee:
I agree with Tony.  Use the dichlor to clear up a problem like cloudy water.  Use the MPS more for maintenance.  Like Tony said filter filter FILTER.  Make sure that you clean the filter regularly (approx. once a month)  and use a filter cleaner as well, not just spray it off.  Just yesterday morning for example I walked out to check my hot tub and it was cloudy, I took the filter out and cleaned it, two hours later it the water looked great.

I hope this helps

Mark

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