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SUCCESS!!! It passed the overnight test, is clear, and has stayed at .5 CC or less. So today we let the FC level fall to normal and finally enjoyed our pool!!! Thanks for all the help!

Thank you! I will continue on then with the multiple backwashings. Also, here is a photo of the sludge I’ve been vacuuming out. It looks very sandy, disperses into yellow/green clouds when disturbed, and takes some time to resettle. That’s why I was thinking mustard algae but I’m about 12 days...

The pool is so so close to clear now - maybe just another day. So now I’m looking at maintenance. Since this is our first season and we got bad early advice that we need all kinds of chemicals to keep the water balanced…what do I actually need to be monitoring and adding regularly? Is it really...

Question - we are vacuuming out a lot of what looks like sand. We have a DE filter and live hundreds of miles from anyplace sandy. I read this could be mustard algae. Will SLAMing be effective against that, or do we need to be doing something additional? I put all our cleaning equipment into the...

Update for anyone who may find this thread while looking for help: FINALLY got all the floc out. It took 5 days and 5x vacuuming, then letting the rest get sucked into the already limping filter. We noticed a lot of the sludge we pulled off the pool floor was DE (despite putting in the proper...

Thank you for responding! The good news is we at least knew enough about floc to NOT run it through the filter. I set it to recirculate for the required 2 hours, then shut it off and have not turned it back on. I have not vacuumed yet and will to waste when I do. I’m giving it more time to see...

Opened my inground pool a week ago and have had nothing but problems. It is concrete with a vinyl liner. This is our first season with the pool and we have zero experience. It had a huge algae bloom right off and it has been a struggle to get chemicals in balance. Algae is dead now but...