On the 18th we noticed that our water just had a tinge of cloudiness....we tested everything and all results were fine. We waited another day and it was slightly more cloudy, and when I brushed the bottom of the pool, there were mild green plums. I decided we needed to slam, based on info here, we had algae.
It took a lot of bleach and 7 days...we tested at least twice a day, and added accordingly to keep up to SLAM level. We vacuumed the little brown patches ( which I am assuming were dead algae, and swept and more vacuuming daily...) you get the picture. Finally, day 7 the water cleared, it looked great. Still brushing and vacuuming daily, and testing....there were very few mild green puffs when I would brush the bottom, so according to the directions, with the ppm, not dropping like it did at first, we let the chlorine level drop to normal. We thought we were done....that was 5 days ago. The water still look clear...but there is still little puffs of color when I brush the bottom....I kept thinking it was just dead algae....
I guess my question is.....'how do you know when you are officially done Slamming?' We decided to take it back up to slam level yesterday, that maybe we didn't get it all.?
This is the first time we have had an issue all summer. We religiously test, sometimes twice a day....I was disappointed that we even had this happen, but I look at it as a learning experience.
Are the 'puffs' when I hit spots on the bottom, DEAD algae, or LIVE algae....how do we know when we are done. This is so frustrating.
Thank you for all of your input. We would like to be able to swim maybe for the last weekend this summer....
It took a lot of bleach and 7 days...we tested at least twice a day, and added accordingly to keep up to SLAM level. We vacuumed the little brown patches ( which I am assuming were dead algae, and swept and more vacuuming daily...) you get the picture. Finally, day 7 the water cleared, it looked great. Still brushing and vacuuming daily, and testing....there were very few mild green puffs when I would brush the bottom, so according to the directions, with the ppm, not dropping like it did at first, we let the chlorine level drop to normal. We thought we were done....that was 5 days ago. The water still look clear...but there is still little puffs of color when I brush the bottom....I kept thinking it was just dead algae....
I guess my question is.....'how do you know when you are officially done Slamming?' We decided to take it back up to slam level yesterday, that maybe we didn't get it all.?
This is the first time we have had an issue all summer. We religiously test, sometimes twice a day....I was disappointed that we even had this happen, but I look at it as a learning experience.
Are the 'puffs' when I hit spots on the bottom, DEAD algae, or LIVE algae....how do we know when we are done. This is so frustrating.
Thank you for all of your input. We would like to be able to swim maybe for the last weekend this summer....