Hey eveyone,
I know this is a common question on the forum but after 3 weeks I'm just not sure what I should be doing at this point. Pool was swampy green when I opened it. It has brand new sand, and I balanced everything and SLAMed for two weeks and vaccuum all the leaves and debris from the bottom. It turned to a cloudy blue, then I gained some visiblisty but I still can't see the bottom. After about two weeks, I passed the OCTL so I began to lower the FC levels to between 2-6 based off my CYA of 30. The pump has been running 24/7 but now I'm not seeing anymore progress each day. I know I shouldn't add a bunch of chemicals to the pool but I feel like I should do SOMETHING because I'm not seeing any progress. The filter also seems to only get dirty (PSI goes up by 25%) if I add a little DE first, once I add the DE I usually have to backwash in two days. If I don't add the DE the PSI never goes up really. I'm only adding about 3 TBSP. I did try to FLOC the pool at first cause it was so bad ( and I had some left over before I joined the TFP club), I'm a little worried it messed up my new sand because there was so much debris at first it clogged up both skimmer baskets containly so I did the best I could vacuuming to waste but the second time days later I vaccummed to filter because I would be loosing to much water (took 3 hours to vacuum, removing leaves from basket repeat). I did a filter deep clean just because of how dirty the pool was to begin with but again, its brand new filter media.
Most recent test:
CYA: 30
FC: 5
CC: ~0.5 (R-0003 turns clear water light pink then 1 drop of R-0871 clears it up).
TA: 80
pH: 7.4
I know this is a common question on the forum but after 3 weeks I'm just not sure what I should be doing at this point. Pool was swampy green when I opened it. It has brand new sand, and I balanced everything and SLAMed for two weeks and vaccuum all the leaves and debris from the bottom. It turned to a cloudy blue, then I gained some visiblisty but I still can't see the bottom. After about two weeks, I passed the OCTL so I began to lower the FC levels to between 2-6 based off my CYA of 30. The pump has been running 24/7 but now I'm not seeing anymore progress each day. I know I shouldn't add a bunch of chemicals to the pool but I feel like I should do SOMETHING because I'm not seeing any progress. The filter also seems to only get dirty (PSI goes up by 25%) if I add a little DE first, once I add the DE I usually have to backwash in two days. If I don't add the DE the PSI never goes up really. I'm only adding about 3 TBSP. I did try to FLOC the pool at first cause it was so bad ( and I had some left over before I joined the TFP club), I'm a little worried it messed up my new sand because there was so much debris at first it clogged up both skimmer baskets containly so I did the best I could vacuuming to waste but the second time days later I vaccummed to filter because I would be loosing to much water (took 3 hours to vacuum, removing leaves from basket repeat). I did a filter deep clean just because of how dirty the pool was to begin with but again, its brand new filter media.
Most recent test:
CYA: 30
FC: 5
CC: ~0.5 (R-0003 turns clear water light pink then 1 drop of R-0871 clears it up).
TA: 80
pH: 7.4
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Even on a good day, sand tends to take longer filtering out dead algae, so it can take longer.