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Update: Pool is sparkling since 2 weeks again. I just wanted to share my experience to help the next person that gets something like that. a) I tried cleaning up the mess by running the pump 24h for a couple days added DE to improve the filtering, but that didn't help. -> fail b) Tried...

Hi Guys, first of all thanks for all your advise. I shut down the pump for about 36h to see if it settles. Unfortunately negative. I didn't see much improvement. Vision is about 1 foot from surface. Not much settled. :grrrr: red clay here in NC. Its almost like a dye. I am losing patience...

We had a bad storm here on Friday night and my pool got flooded. Since then I am running the pump 24h. Unfortunately I do not see much progress in getting it clean. Please see attached pic. I am adding Dicalite filter powder to my sand filter every time I need to backwash. Back washing is...

Update on day 3 of shocking: Pool looks crystal clear since 1.5 day. Yesterday FC dropped to 19 during the day. At 6pm I put some more bleach into the pool and reached FC of 30. That was the first time I added some after that initial over shocking. I added some DE to the sand filter after day 1...

I have a saltsystem and that takes care of the chlorine and that worked fine. Its hard tell what triggered it. I believe I had something already going on in the pool and it just got worse with the rain we had going on and I also had a dead mouse in the skimmer that was already rotten when I...

Thanks for your advice. I am learning every day. Lost 1.5 overnight and started the shocking process this morning. According to the shock level recommendation I should be at 24 FC. I went a little bit overboard with the bleach as I ended up @ 35. I do have a fiberglass pool. I was reading that...

Thanks for the quick feedback. I just don't quite understand how I can have algae with CC being 0? Also my FC is 11. Are you guys saying I am having algae because there is stuff on the bottom?

Just got back from 1 week vac and my pool looked like this with stains all over the bottom. [attachment=0:22nchq8o]IMG00172-20120818-1902.jpg[/attachment:22nchq8o] I did a backwash on my sand filter and let the vacuum run for 24h. I also checked my chemistry and everything seams in order: Temp...

Cloudiness is gone after I upped chlorine and got all values in the right area. FC 5 PH 7.6 TA 85 CH 250 CYA 80 Sparkling clear pool. Temp is 87 with the new solar system. Family and neighbors love it.

Hi JasonLion, thanks for your reply. I didn't know that I couldn't do it in one go. Yes, I wanted to tackle the PH this afternoon. It there anything in addition that I need to do right now because of the past cloudiness? How do I know if I have algae right now? Is cloudiness a normal process...

Hi there, Before we go to my question a little bit about me: I bought a house with a fiber glass pool last July. I never had a pool before, so I went to the pool store to get water tested and my chemicals. I found this awesome site shortly after and now I am able to maintain my pool with the...