Taste? I got one word for you: TANG But joking aside I really don't mind the taste since I swim a lot

Well I think I missed that part in the manual about 8 times water overtreatment. I just figured that everytime I did it right for the first few bottles and tested it with Ph strips I got the right color so treating it double the amount would get me the results needed. I didn't filter the floating particles as they were very few.

I didn't use much salt maybe less than half the bag it comes with. I was topping it off every 3 days or so.