All -
Thanks for reading my post. I'm stuck at the cloudy-blue step of ridding my pool of a serious algae bloom. I posted pics below of where I started and where I'm currently at (13,500-gallon pool). Just got back from my local pool store and I've posted my water test results below: (keep in mind CH is high because of shocking the pool, etc) My pool store told me that my pool is "stuck" where it is because my CYA and phosphates are way too high? The high CYA is my own fault...before the algae bloom started a couple weeks ago I was keeping my pool chlorinated with Chlorine Tabs which I've learned is bad because they jack up your CYA! So during the last two weeks, my pool store has had me shocking the Crud outta my pool with liquid chlorine, etc. I was told today that my CYA is so high that it could be causing inaccurate readings of all my other test results? I was told to drain my pool 60% because that's the only way to get my CYA number down and until my CYA goes down nothing else I do to the pool will affect it all that much?! The "green" pic below is from 2 weeks ago. The "cloudy blue" pic is from 2 days ago and the last picture is from 30 minutes ago. I'm assuming all the light-greenish spots on the bottom of my pool are dead algae carcasses since I'm now at cloudy-blue and the green appears to be gone? Since I was told to start draining my pool and seeing how I don't have a sand filter system w/ a "vacuum to waste" option (I have a cartridge filter) I'm going to drop a submersible sump pump down to the bottom and drain the pool with that while using it to vacuum-up all the light-green colored spots on the bottom of the pool (simulating a "vacuum to waste" process). Can someone please tell me if there's a better alternative for clearing up my cloudy-blue that happened because of an algae bloom?
FC: 6.14 ppm (this was 15.1 a week ago as I was shocking the algae)
TC: 6.14 ppm
CC: 0 ppm
pH: 7.6
TA: 165 ppm
CH: 198 ppm
CYA: 135 ppm
Iron: 0 ppm
Cop: .2 ppm
Phos: 3607 ppb
Thanks!
Todd
Thanks for reading my post. I'm stuck at the cloudy-blue step of ridding my pool of a serious algae bloom. I posted pics below of where I started and where I'm currently at (13,500-gallon pool). Just got back from my local pool store and I've posted my water test results below: (keep in mind CH is high because of shocking the pool, etc) My pool store told me that my pool is "stuck" where it is because my CYA and phosphates are way too high? The high CYA is my own fault...before the algae bloom started a couple weeks ago I was keeping my pool chlorinated with Chlorine Tabs which I've learned is bad because they jack up your CYA! So during the last two weeks, my pool store has had me shocking the Crud outta my pool with liquid chlorine, etc. I was told today that my CYA is so high that it could be causing inaccurate readings of all my other test results? I was told to drain my pool 60% because that's the only way to get my CYA number down and until my CYA goes down nothing else I do to the pool will affect it all that much?! The "green" pic below is from 2 weeks ago. The "cloudy blue" pic is from 2 days ago and the last picture is from 30 minutes ago. I'm assuming all the light-greenish spots on the bottom of my pool are dead algae carcasses since I'm now at cloudy-blue and the green appears to be gone? Since I was told to start draining my pool and seeing how I don't have a sand filter system w/ a "vacuum to waste" option (I have a cartridge filter) I'm going to drop a submersible sump pump down to the bottom and drain the pool with that while using it to vacuum-up all the light-green colored spots on the bottom of the pool (simulating a "vacuum to waste" process). Can someone please tell me if there's a better alternative for clearing up my cloudy-blue that happened because of an algae bloom?
FC: 6.14 ppm (this was 15.1 a week ago as I was shocking the algae)
TC: 6.14 ppm
CC: 0 ppm
pH: 7.6
TA: 165 ppm
CH: 198 ppm
CYA: 135 ppm
Iron: 0 ppm
Cop: .2 ppm
Phos: 3607 ppb
Thanks!
Todd