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Stuart: The fine particulate was my operative theory all along - others in the area say this has been the worst year for dirt in the pool. It has truly been a rough year of being a slave to pool care. I will definitely look for an auto vac option for next season. I have, on several occasions...

Thanks for all the help, from everybody. I have a bit more confidence today than I did yesterday. I am glad I found this resource. I only had 48 oz of muriatic for last night and put that in. Looks by my test this morning that I am below 8 but in high 7s. My test for acid requirements says I...

So, it looks like I may be in for shocking my pool. I had been told by my pool center that running the salt system in "super chlorinate" mode was the equivalent of shocking the pool. Now, I understand that a certain FC level must be reached and maintained during the shocking period to insure a...

Sorry I left that out - CYA is 35 and Salt is 2800

Thanks so much for your input. I had that thought about dead algae -- it indeed does just dissipate in my fingers -- the fact that there is so much 'real' gritty dirt as well on the pool bottom was greatly confusing to me . Since my water is not green - where is this algae coming from - could it...

I have to vacuum the complete bottom every 2-3 days - very powdery dirt/dist settles to bottom and covers in a brown film. First started happening during first week of July here in St. Louis - multiple weeks of 100+ degrees. I live in a new home development where there has been non-stop...