Hi all,
Up until a few days ago, my pool was a clear sparkling oasis. Then yesterday morning, I looked outside and saw that the water had turned green. I walked over to the pool and the water is clear so I can see the bottom just fine, but there is still a light green tint. I emptied out the skimmer basket as I do every morning and there was a dead frog (nothing unusual for us). Then I went to the filter basket by the pool pump and noticed another dead frog in there! I was dumbfounded as to how a frog could have managed to bypass the skimmer basket and crawl/swim/get sucked up to the filter basket, but then I found out that a friend who came over on Sunday for a little get together had emptied the skimmer basket and a frog somehow escaped the skimmer basket. He thought the frog went back into the pool but he couldn't find it anywhere, so now we know how the frog made it up to the filter basket.
Anyways, my theory is that the frog was in the filter basket for 24-36 hours and my pump/filter essentially was making "frog soup" and the resulting organic material was being passed back into the pool which acted as super fertilizer to spark an algae bloom. Thinking this had to be the case, I poured several gallons of bleach into the pool yesterday, which usually clears up any algae quite quickly. However, this morning, the pool was still greenish in color so I went and got several more gallons of bleach to dump in, which I just did, so I will have to wait to see if that works.
Something else worth noting is that I have been running the SWG the past 4 or 5 days and it appeared to be working correctly. However, my question is, if the SWG was running correctly, shouldn't the chlorine from the SWG taken care of the algae/green water in the first place? Or would it be possible that my SWG is actually the cause of the green water somehow? The fact that the water is a lightly tinted green and the water is still completely clear to see all the way to the bottom, makes me wonder if somehow copper had something to do with it? But how would copper get into the pool all of a sudden and overnight, when we've never had a copper issue in the past 4 summers?
I know I need to test my water and post the results here but I was just curious if anyone has any idea what would cause water to go green over night (if it was the frog in the filter basket and/or the SWG or something else)? And if it is a copper issue, how would I go about testing it and how would I resolve it?
Thanks!
Up until a few days ago, my pool was a clear sparkling oasis. Then yesterday morning, I looked outside and saw that the water had turned green. I walked over to the pool and the water is clear so I can see the bottom just fine, but there is still a light green tint. I emptied out the skimmer basket as I do every morning and there was a dead frog (nothing unusual for us). Then I went to the filter basket by the pool pump and noticed another dead frog in there! I was dumbfounded as to how a frog could have managed to bypass the skimmer basket and crawl/swim/get sucked up to the filter basket, but then I found out that a friend who came over on Sunday for a little get together had emptied the skimmer basket and a frog somehow escaped the skimmer basket. He thought the frog went back into the pool but he couldn't find it anywhere, so now we know how the frog made it up to the filter basket.
Anyways, my theory is that the frog was in the filter basket for 24-36 hours and my pump/filter essentially was making "frog soup" and the resulting organic material was being passed back into the pool which acted as super fertilizer to spark an algae bloom. Thinking this had to be the case, I poured several gallons of bleach into the pool yesterday, which usually clears up any algae quite quickly. However, this morning, the pool was still greenish in color so I went and got several more gallons of bleach to dump in, which I just did, so I will have to wait to see if that works.
Something else worth noting is that I have been running the SWG the past 4 or 5 days and it appeared to be working correctly. However, my question is, if the SWG was running correctly, shouldn't the chlorine from the SWG taken care of the algae/green water in the first place? Or would it be possible that my SWG is actually the cause of the green water somehow? The fact that the water is a lightly tinted green and the water is still completely clear to see all the way to the bottom, makes me wonder if somehow copper had something to do with it? But how would copper get into the pool all of a sudden and overnight, when we've never had a copper issue in the past 4 summers?
I know I need to test my water and post the results here but I was just curious if anyone has any idea what would cause water to go green over night (if it was the frog in the filter basket and/or the SWG or something else)? And if it is a copper issue, how would I go about testing it and how would I resolve it?
Thanks!
I should probably check more often 
