algaecide

I kinda knew this was going to happen but decided to do it anyway ... You can see my PoolMath logs for the latest test results. I added an 8oz start up dose of SKILL-IT algaecide (BioDex) to see if it would help with wasp control. We have mud-daubers (paper wasps) around here and they...

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Central Virginia, Fiberglass, SWG, 17k gallons and autocover: My first season and apparently my PB wants me to get the chemicals in the water the day or so before they come to do the closing. (part of the build) I do all my own chemistry and am pretty comfortable with the Taylor/TFP test kit...

My recent experience going through a SLAM for mustard algae in my above-ground pool made me think about the recommendations against use of any kind of algaecide in the process, and sodium bromide algaecide specifically. Someone stated that applying any bromine to a chlorine pool turns it into...

Today I went out and added Algaecide and Sodium Bicarbonate to a pool, the pool was blue before and just had a few green areas. Now the water has turned green. Not sure why, I listed the chemical readings below: Total Hardness: 250 Total Chlorine: 0 Total Bromine: 0 Free Chlorine: 0 PH: 6.2...

We have a 16x32 inground 4-6 ft depth saltwater (SWG) pool that we built in 2015. We have had very little trouble over the years until we opened the pool this spring to find it cloudy. (Long story—but just before we closed it last fall, it got an accidental overdose of algaecide). We just...

First time poster here! Background info: we have a 20,000 gallon in the ground pool and have had it working well for 4 summers now. We have a sand filter and a nature 2 cartridge. We have an automatic cover so it’s usually covered unless in use, and it’s used probably every other day. This is...

Oops! I wasn’t reading correctly and added an entire gallon of HTH algae guard (9.96% n-Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chlorides; 0.04% n-Dialkyl Methyl Benzyl Ammonium Chlorides; 90% “other ingredients”) to my vinyl above ground pool (5300 gallons). I later read elsewhere that was only supposed...

Curious, TFP pool app is suggesting my CSI is setting conditions for corrosion to begin with a CSI at -0.6 is that correct? My PH is about 7.6 and my TA is about 65. CH is a little low at 250. I understand PH can help adjust CSI but I generally don’t go much higher. Thoughts or am I okay...

I was out of town last week, during which my chlorine levels dropped to zero (poor planning on my part) and we also had torrential rain. When I returned home to Hartwell, GA, I was greeted by a pool that looked more like a pond - specifically it had green / yellow algae all over, along with...

Oh no. I just got back from a business trip and made the mistake of adding copper ethylenadimine complex to my plaster pool. What can I do to mitigate the damage? After I got home, I found my algae had not disappeared despite raising FC/TC to 5 and Ph to 7.5. I shocked the pool w 1.5 lbs of...