Hello All,
I'm a new pool owner, this is my first season ever dealing with a pool in any way. I have an above ground 9,000 gallon pool and it does not seem to hold chlorine at all. I have a hayward automatic chlorine feeder and it's turned all the way up. I've been filling it to the brim with tabs. Every week I check it and the tabs seem to be dissipating, so I fill it back up to the top...but every time I get the water tested it shows no chlorine in the pool. Is it possible that the chlorine is dissolving, but not getting into the pool? Could there be some kind of clog? The water is pumping back into the pool so I don't know how that would be, but then again I don't know much about this stuff yet. I shocked the pool on a wednesday and tested the water on a friday and still no chlorine. I'm now having an algae issue so I tested for phosphates and there was a low level (200). I put phos-free into the pool and vacumed the algae out, but it just came right back. Any idea on how I can get my chlorine to stay in the pool?
Any and all advice is much appreciated.
I'm a new pool owner, this is my first season ever dealing with a pool in any way. I have an above ground 9,000 gallon pool and it does not seem to hold chlorine at all. I have a hayward automatic chlorine feeder and it's turned all the way up. I've been filling it to the brim with tabs. Every week I check it and the tabs seem to be dissipating, so I fill it back up to the top...but every time I get the water tested it shows no chlorine in the pool. Is it possible that the chlorine is dissolving, but not getting into the pool? Could there be some kind of clog? The water is pumping back into the pool so I don't know how that would be, but then again I don't know much about this stuff yet. I shocked the pool on a wednesday and tested the water on a friday and still no chlorine. I'm now having an algae issue so I tested for phosphates and there was a low level (200). I put phos-free into the pool and vacumed the algae out, but it just came right back. Any idea on how I can get my chlorine to stay in the pool?
Any and all advice is much appreciated.