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I hope this is in the right place. I have an above ground pool. It is around 14,000 gallons and is salt water. The PH, CYA and chlorine are all good. I have trouble with bees. I don't know what kind they are. My friend calls them sweat bees. They are about the size of a house fly or a little...

Not a great picture but this is what they look like.

These are very small and a dark color. When they get on you they will bite/sting pretty good. Some days I have to make a trip around the pool with a skimmer net in my hand every 15 minutes and will get 8 to 10. To give you an idea of the size they are 2 to 3 times bigger than a tic.

Hello, I have an above ground pool. I am running a SWG on the pool. We have been getting a lot of little tiny bees in the pool. Does anybody else have this problem? Does anybody know if they could be attracted because of some kind of imbalance in the water?

Did everything according to closing your above ground pool. Can't wait for next summer.

Welcome and listen to the people here. I wasted three weeks with pool stores and my green swamp stayed a green swamp. After four weeks here and listening to the people here I have a beautiful clear pool. Do not listen to the pool stores.

Thanks that helped me a lot. I am just getting started with a SWG and am running at 20%.

Good to hear, I also have Hayward equipment.

If you have a SWG it should give you the salt content on the digital readout in the controller. Make sure the chlorine switch is turned to auto. I am running mine in a 13,000 gallon pool for two six hour periods each day set at 20% and am keeping an FC of 6. Hope this helps.

I forgot to add I have the timer set for the filter 12 AM to 6 AM on, 6 AM to 12 noon off, 12 noon to 6 PM on and 6 PM to 12 AM off.

My slam has been over for around a week. The pool is still clear and we are enjoying finally being able to swim. I almost have my SWG dialed in. Here are my numbers. PH is 7.2 FC is 6 CC is .4 CYA is 70 TA is 100 Salt is 3100

16 gallons doesn't sound bad. I went through 80 gallons in three weeks during my slam.

I couldn't wait until tomorrow. I vacuumed it today. We have a clear pool.

I did the floc treatment 24 hours ago. Today I can see the bottom. I am still going to wait until tomorrow to vacuum. I am very happy right now. Thank you everybody for your help.

Agent99 I grew up not to far from you in Hayward. We had a pool growing up but my Dad always took care of the chemicals, I would just brush the bottom and skim the top. It was 15 feet by 30 feet 28,000 gallons IG. There is a lot more to it than I realized.

Great news. The pool was still a little cloudy and looked white. As I was vacuuming I could see it turn blue. The pool is 4 feet deep and I could barely see the vacuum head on the bottom in most of the pool. It was strange because there were spots in the pool that were like clouds where it...

Did you get to see him. LOL I'm not very far from Moth Man

Yes I can't wait to see what it looks like in the morning.

Here is the pic from this morning

I guess after working with it for six weeks and it still isn't clear anybody would be a little impatient. I turned off the pump and let it settle overnight. I will let it settle until tomorrow and vacuum to waste. Here is a picture of what it looks like after settling overnight. Well no picture...

Don't know for sure. The water looked like this for a week before I tried the DE.

I thought the floc might help it settle faster. I will try what you suggested first. I hate to add anything to the pool that isn't needed

I took a sample in a glass. After three hours I can see very small white clumps suspended all around with a small amount settled on the bottom. I took a picture but it won't let me upload it, says I exceeded my limit. I bought some Alum flock. I put a water sample in a baggie and mixed in a...

Thanks I appreciate the help from you and everybody else that has been helping. I was reading another thread in here where he used Alum flock. I was wondering if that might help in my case.

The pool has looked like this for around a week. I have been adding the RK bleach using 8.5% in pool math and it is working out right. For example if it says to add 30oz to go from 22 to 24 it works out. When I run out I am going to try the Walmart bleach. Today I vacuumed again. Backflushed...

I have been buying my bleach at Rural King for a couple of weeks now. They have been charging me $12.79 for 12 gallons. This is the bleach from Rural King. Here are a few pictures of the pool. Let me know if it looks normal and has to run it's course or if I need to do something else.