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Tonight : Deep end 8Ft Shallow end - 3 Ft Woo hoo :whoot: :party: :cheers:

Two days ago

You're doing it right. My pool is close to the same size as yours, and it takes the sand filter a long while to clean out all the dead algae. You can check out the photos in this thread: opening-my-pool-to-a-green-swamp-t46519.html Just keep at it :goodjob:

The deep end main drain

This morning

The deep end drop off

Couple of days after the pool store recommendations You can see the bottom of the shallow end

After first round of chlorine

Here is what it looked like at opening

I already did that, received it yesterday. Will add 2 gal of liquid shock tonight, will try and test it in the AM before heading to work, but I can't promise anything on that. :sleep:

I see the HtH Super Shock is a cal-hypo.

Took a sample to the pool store over Memorial Day Weekend, got the handwritten test results mentioned above, which were: Problem: Green FC: TC: no pH: low - OK TA: 40 CH: 90 CYA:ok They had me add 15# Alkalinity+ (broadcast 4# at a time every 3 hrs), 42# of Calcium (deicer type), 9 Gal of...