My family has an 18' diameter 4' tall above ground Intex Pool. We opened it up about a month ago and started the attempt to clean the green science experiment we found underneath. We successfully changed the color back to blue but there is a thick cloud of white particles throughout the pool preventing us from seeing the bottom. We have tried several pool store "easy" solutions (or at least that is what they told us). We have unsuccessfully used several coagulants, shock treatments, and many gallons of chlorine before we were told our CYA is too low for the pool to hold any Chlorine (we have just recently raised it up)... Needless to say, my family is fed up with the pool stores so I searched for some online help and found this website. From what I have read on this site, it seems we need to SLAM (http://www.troublefreepool.com/content/125-slam-shock-level-and-maintain-shockingl) our pool; but just to be safe, I wanted to see if anyone had some other ideas in case our situation called for something different. Thank you so much to anyone who takes the time to help us out; my family greatly appreciates any effort in helping the family pool getting up and running again. Below are some details about our pool, hopefully that helps in your diagnosis:
FC: 0 TC: 0
CH: 420 CYA: 70
TA: 90 pH: 7.8
Copper: 0 Iron: 0
TDS: 2200 Pho: 20
Vinyl 7,617Gal Intex above Ground w/a Sand Filter (http://www.amazon.com/Intex-000-Gallon-Filter-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B002V1H11W)
FC: 0 TC: 0
CH: 420 CYA: 70
TA: 90 pH: 7.8
Copper: 0 Iron: 0
TDS: 2200 Pho: 20
Vinyl 7,617Gal Intex above Ground w/a Sand Filter (http://www.amazon.com/Intex-000-Gallon-Filter-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B002V1H11W)