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=== Each week (''every Saturday'') === # Open the top ''fully'' and turn on the jets. Set a timer for 30 minutes. You want it to aerate for about 30 minutes with the shock inside. # Check the levels using one of the 4/5-way test strips. There are instructions for using them on the bottle but it's pretty easy. Submerge for a 5-10 seconds and then check against the key on the bottle. Make sure to close the bottle ''before'' you get your hand all wet so you don't get the water into the tube. The main thing you are looking for is: (a) is the top one purple at all? If so, that's good! If it's just pure white, let Mako know. Also check the PH. # Add 1/4 cups of "Spa Shock" or "Oxidizing Shock" to the tub (with the jets on). It's in the big tub and the scoop is in there. I typically add them into the right corner slowly. This will kill/destroy anything in the tub. # Pull out that floating plastic thing and turn it upside down and unscrew the bottom. There will be a bunch of smaller chunks. Just save those by putting them aside or piling them in the cap. Add a few "brominating tablets" into the tube (probably 2-3 max). I find that dropping those in is kind of a pain so I typically screw the the length extending tube down so it becomes all the way retracted and then sort of stack things up and then extend it (you'll see what I mean). I usually want it be unscrewed to about the 4 or 5 mark. Make sure to leave room for all the chunks. Put the floater back into the tub when you're done. Based on the results from the test strips, you might need to adjust the PH or maybe the alkalinity. In every case, add ''no more than 1oz'' at a time to the running jets and then give things five minutes to mix and settle. Then retest with a new test strip. Adjust by adding whatever the strips suggest is necessary in order in which they are listed on the test strip bottle (top-to-bottom): # Alkaline increaser [almost certainly not necessary; if it looks close, skip it] # PH increaser or decreaser (depend on whether it needs to go up or down) Typically once you've done this (or maybe even before) there might be some scum that has collected along the edges of the water. The shocks sort of "releases" organic material into the water in this way. Use the magic eraser style sponge to clean that up. It comes right off. Once you're done, you can out any leaves and/or gross looking foam with the little mesh collinder.
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