Recent content by Redelephants

After almost 48 hrs of continuous filtering, the pool color and clarity have greatly improved. I haven’t added anymore bleach since last evening. This is pretty strange….

I will do that and report back. I cannot see any particulates with the light on, however the water does look better in sunlight. I do wonder, however, if I would be seeing a significant drop in FC if it were algae?

I’m sure it does, should I try some sequestrant? Picture shows 24 hr change with continuous filtering.

Yes to the well, no to the cartridge, never put algaecide in. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve topped off the pool from the well.

It looks like my pool water has made a little progress overnight, however it doesn’t appear that I’m experiencing much chlorine loss. My levels were basically where they were last night this morning and my filter pressure has slightly increased. I would think if it were algae I would see much...

Thanks, I guess the pump should be running 24/7 during the slam?

I haven’t, 12-14 ppm on FC normally.

Taylor K-2006

Help!! My pool has turned aqua green and it doesn’t seem to want to turn back blue. I thought it was algae but I’m thinking now, maybe not. I started shocking today based on pool math calculator and have put polyfill into my skimmer to see if it’s metal. I am on a well so I’m sure it has iron in...

I had a similar issue, but I dumped the dirt into the pool during construction and never got it out. I tried running my sand filter for 5 days without much progress, so I ended up using pool floc which forced it to settle on the bottom where I could vac to waste. It took 2 treatments and about 5...

Thank you!