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I have been battling this same invader for a few years now. I thought it was algae for a while and shocked for algae levels and mustard levels and still comes back. I have no ocl and CCs are less than 1. I have vacuumed to waste 4 times this year and there will be small piles of it on the floor...

SO I have been dealing with a cloudy pool for a month now. It was a swamp when I opened a little over a month ago. I thought I had all the debris out. CYA is at 30 and I have been keeping my shock levels up to 12. I read that the cloudy water taking so long to clear could be from things such as...

Hello everyone! Ran into an issue. I was vacuuming my pool to wast when the water started to get low at the skimmer. I had a little more to do so I decided to set it to filter. I vacuumed some and my pressure jumped quickly. I went to backwash and I heard a loud noise in the filter valve are...

I have came across a lot of posts about not back-washing if you set a sock filled with CYA in your skimmer basket due to it sitting in the filter. What if you have it sitting in your skimmer basket but the pool is on circulate bypassing the filter? Is it safe to backwash as you would if you were...

Hey everyone! Been reading some through the forums trying to find an answer. As of now I am leaning towards adding more stabilizer. We had a lot of rain and snow here in SW Michigan and I opened my pool to a swamp yesterday. I took a sample of water yesterday and my CYA was at zero. I thought...

I am having a very hard time understanding what is in my pool. You can find my last post here with pics of the pool floor before I started to SLAM What is this? Anyway, last night I vacuumed to waste as much as I could, lowered my ph to 7.2 and began the SLAM process. CYA 30 FC 15 PH 7.2 I...

This is the second year I've had this. I'm not sure what it is. Pool has been fine since I opened in the end of May. Last Saturday I was going to let the nephews come swimming and when I pulled the cover back it was all over the deep end and slant. I had this last year. I would SLAM and then...

Happy 4th everyone! This is my first year with a cover and I am used to adding chlorine everyday. When I keep my cover on, my FC does not drop at all. I've had 5 to 5.5 FC for the last 2 or 3 days. My cc is normally .5

I am looking to change my sand in my filter. I need #20 .40 - .55mm sand and uniformity coefficient less than 1.75. The pool store has sand but the only numbers on it are 49/20. Does that mean it's .49mm / #20?

I was slamming my pool because I thought I might of had mustard algae. During the process I placed all of my equipment in the shallow end during and I removed it today. When I pulled my brush out there was this strange clear gel like substance all over only the metal part. Any idea what it could...

I am in the process of transforming my swamp. I have been passing OCLT and I decided to try adding some DE. It takes my sand filter about 4 days to go up 1 psi. I added enough DE to bring my pressure up by 1 and 10min later I had to BW. The water was very dark and dirty. I added the same amount...

Hello all this is my third year having my pool and I have never had this issue. Opened my pool this year and just last week had it in good shape. After shocking and killing all the algae pool was cloudy but clear in the shallow end. Well, I had an issue with my pump and i had it off for maybe 2...

Greetings! Well, it's that time of the year again and I have opened my pool. Once again pool was a swamp but I now have the water a smokey blue color. I am not sure if I have a problem or not so I came here to you guys. What is happening is when I first opened it i was having to backwash every...

I have a Sta-Rite T-200BP-1 Filter and my spider gasket is built into the diverter assembly. I have heard that these can be a pain to replace. Mine needs replaced because the gasket is smashed in one area. It's either replace it or spend the money to get the whole new muti-port valve since they...

I have the TF100 which is great when needing to shock and test for CC, but I can't imagine using the FAS/DPD test on a daily basis to make sure FC level are maintained. My question is, how can I tell my FC levels from the TC OTO test kit that comes with the TF100?

I have noticed that once I started filtering a lot of the live algae and the pressure would rise it would sound like I have air under the valve on the filter, and this wouldn't stop until I did a deep cleanse of the sand in the filter. Now that I am not filtering a lot of live algae I still get...

Hello! Been a member for about a year now and just want to thank everyone for all the great information this site has. This may possibly be my first attempt at opening my pool this year. I don't mind paying someone like I did last year but I would at least like to give it a shot. I have been...

Hello, I am kind of confused regarding the shocking process. I really do not feel I need to shock since my FC only dropped 3ppm in 24hrs but, there was a bad storm and lots of dirt and other debris as well as frogs starting to hang out at night, so I decided to shock the pool. My confusion is...

Came home today from work and my pump was not running. I went to look at it, flipped the switch off and back on and nothing. Felt the pump and it was very hot, I couldn't keep my hand on it for longer than 4 to 5 secs. We had a storm today and I know that that there were power issues in my area...

I am having an issue, but not sure if it is actually an issue and wanted to get your thoughts. Last week I was having problems on my suction side and after replacing plumbing I corrected it and the suction side is working great. After I corrected the problem I noticed my pressure was high so I...

My skimmer has little to no suction on it. First time pool owner and just opened the pool up this weekend. Seemed like everything was working fine at first, I was able to vacuum the pool with no issues. After that first day I wanted to vacuum again after the pool party we had for my son the day...

I am not sure where to post this so I will start here. I just bought a home in December of 2011 and this home came with a pool that has sat for a few years. I needed to have the liner replaced and that's what is happening today. I had a few set backs getting this liner in and have actually had...

Hello all, I am Jason, and I am a new pool owner in the SW Michigan area. There is a lot of great information on this site and look forward to my experience here!