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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!

I’m in northwest Florida.

Here’s an update, had to do a second Floc treatment overnight and I’m very pleased with the results. At this point, it appears that my sand filter simply cannot filter out this silt, would you recommend an application of DE to finish it off? Post-floc Post-vacuum to waste

I would see if you can get your well water tested before getting too concerned. All too often false assumptions are made, which tend to exaggerate the outcome. Unless you have knowledge of a high iron content, I wouldn’t worry. If you have a pool store nearby, they can test for copper/iron.

So..... I decided to use some Pool Floc last night and boy am I glad I did. I knew that I had a lot of dirt in the pool, but what I found this morning was unreal. Given the amount of dirt in the pool, it would have taken weeks to filter it out. I vacuumed it all to waste and now we can enjoy our...

I got my water tested for metals at Pinch-a-Penny and the result came back .1 but it doesn’t provide a scale. I was surprised to see them use Taylor reagents for the testing, as I assumed it was some test strip analyzer similar to the hardware store. Is a reading of .1 high?

Thanks, FWIW, the poly-fill I added to the skimmer hasn’t changed much, so hopefully I’m just dealing with an algae outbreak. The water in the pool was without any chlorine for several days while it was being built.

Yes, fresh fill from my deep well.

I don’t have any CYA in the pool yet, it’s brand new water. Guess I’ll just keep dosing with 5 ppm worth each day and leave the filter going 24/7 until I can get my test kit. Looks like it’s going to be next week due to the delay in shipping from the virus.

I can smell the chlorine if that’s what you’re referring to.

Not yet, this was from lovsl hardware store, best I can do for now.