Okay, new pool user here so I hope I did the signature card and everything right.
We set up the pool and filled it. Realized the pump that came with it was terrible so it sat for a few weeks as we waited on the Intex sand pump(info in signature card).
It was beyond green. Terrible.
Got her going! Shocked with 1 lb of Clorox shock. It helped. Shocked again 24 hours later.(same amount) She is blue!
Last shock was yesterday morning. Then last night I backwashed and added an arm and hammer total balance tablet. (Helps keep pH and alkalinity stable?)
The image attached is from this morning. Blue but VERY cloudy. I tested this morning and the chlorine turned red. So way off the register.
I vacuumed then added 4 oz of Clorox clarifier (seems like very little but that's what the instructions said and I have to dump directly in the pool because my pump doesn't have a separate skimmer basket), let it go on filter for a couple of hours, then shut the pump down and let it all settle for the day. Vacuumed again tonight but it was a very little trace amount. I don't see any algae at all. It's just very cloudy water. I can see the bottom but I really would like to get this to a nice clear point.
My recent test for tonight says 5ppm for chlorine and 6.8 for PH after everything. So levels did come down a bit.
Turned the pump back on (have not added any other chlorine or other products at all) and was going to let it run on filter for another 8 hours this evening.
Any advice would be appreciated. Am I on the right track? Should I be adding floc instead of the clarifier and do you think that amount of clarifier seems to be too little? Not sure. I feel like I'm RIGHT there missing something to take this from cloudy merky blue to crystal clear
We set up the pool and filled it. Realized the pump that came with it was terrible so it sat for a few weeks as we waited on the Intex sand pump(info in signature card).
It was beyond green. Terrible.
Got her going! Shocked with 1 lb of Clorox shock. It helped. Shocked again 24 hours later.(same amount) She is blue!
Last shock was yesterday morning. Then last night I backwashed and added an arm and hammer total balance tablet. (Helps keep pH and alkalinity stable?)
The image attached is from this morning. Blue but VERY cloudy. I tested this morning and the chlorine turned red. So way off the register.
I vacuumed then added 4 oz of Clorox clarifier (seems like very little but that's what the instructions said and I have to dump directly in the pool because my pump doesn't have a separate skimmer basket), let it go on filter for a couple of hours, then shut the pump down and let it all settle for the day. Vacuumed again tonight but it was a very little trace amount. I don't see any algae at all. It's just very cloudy water. I can see the bottom but I really would like to get this to a nice clear point.
My recent test for tonight says 5ppm for chlorine and 6.8 for PH after everything. So levels did come down a bit.
Turned the pump back on (have not added any other chlorine or other products at all) and was going to let it run on filter for another 8 hours this evening.
Any advice would be appreciated. Am I on the right track? Should I be adding floc instead of the clarifier and do you think that amount of clarifier seems to be too little? Not sure. I feel like I'm RIGHT there missing something to take this from cloudy merky blue to crystal clear
