Water has stayed cloudy enough through this years opening such that the bottom drain is a barely visible blob. It's clearer in the shallows. Water color is good, the translucency is like when you do a CYA test, the deeper the water column the more opaque it gets.
I cannot identify anything different about this year. Water chemistry seems ok, I have kept liquid chlorine between 9 and 20 to cover that base. CYA 50, pH 7.5m, CH 200, TA 80. I haven't added any substances to the pool. Superpump works as usual, visible water flow in the pool. As in previous years there is a tiny amount of DE coming through my filter grids, but my Nautilus robot traps it in its own fine filter grids, again, like other years. Can DE remain suspended in the water for weeks? It always seems to have fallen to the floor.
I've been at this for 3 weeks and cannot figure out what is causing the cloudiness. I'm wondering if I should resort to a flocculant but that seems like a terrible short-term band-aid. Anyone seen mystery cloudiness before? I'm really skeptical that it could be algae-related; I haven't done a SLAM, but I have also never ever seen algae that wasn't killed with normal chlorine levels and that wasn't captured by the filter. There is no algae on my surfaces.
I cannot identify anything different about this year. Water chemistry seems ok, I have kept liquid chlorine between 9 and 20 to cover that base. CYA 50, pH 7.5m, CH 200, TA 80. I haven't added any substances to the pool. Superpump works as usual, visible water flow in the pool. As in previous years there is a tiny amount of DE coming through my filter grids, but my Nautilus robot traps it in its own fine filter grids, again, like other years. Can DE remain suspended in the water for weeks? It always seems to have fallen to the floor.
I've been at this for 3 weeks and cannot figure out what is causing the cloudiness. I'm wondering if I should resort to a flocculant but that seems like a terrible short-term band-aid. Anyone seen mystery cloudiness before? I'm really skeptical that it could be algae-related; I haven't done a SLAM, but I have also never ever seen algae that wasn't killed with normal chlorine levels and that wasn't captured by the filter. There is no algae on my surfaces.