Bought a house with a huge AGP. 33' Round. Prior owners either lost interest in swimming or were the most lucrative frog breeders this side of the Mississippi. Pump was a 2.5hp Hayward and was shot and it looks like they left it that way for a couple seasons. The largest I could find to replace it was a 1.5HP so that's what I'm running right now.
After a much needed near full drain-to-scoop literally FEET of decaying leaves and filth, I'm back to slightly cloudy but blue water at refill. Still shocking with 10% bleach and running the filter 24/7 in anticipation of the arrival of a real test kit instead of these lacking 7-n-one strips. Pondering life choices and whether the remaining cloudy brown bits on the bottom are dead algae and detritus or mustard algae that's lying dormant like a den of angry badgers. Vac to waste just seems to stir it up. Ugh.
Maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll swim in it this summer. If not, it'll be clean as a whistle by closing time and hopefully won't be a nightmare to open next spring.
After a much needed near full drain-to-scoop literally FEET of decaying leaves and filth, I'm back to slightly cloudy but blue water at refill. Still shocking with 10% bleach and running the filter 24/7 in anticipation of the arrival of a real test kit instead of these lacking 7-n-one strips. Pondering life choices and whether the remaining cloudy brown bits on the bottom are dead algae and detritus or mustard algae that's lying dormant like a den of angry badgers. Vac to waste just seems to stir it up. Ugh.
Maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll swim in it this summer. If not, it'll be clean as a whistle by closing time and hopefully won't be a nightmare to open next spring.
At the very least it sounds like you have the right test kit on its way so that you can actually do things right. Once your kit comes in post a full set of numbers and we'll do what we can to help you. Nice to have you and the "swamp" with us. 