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No stains, but there is green 'stuff' settling on the bottom of the pool. The FC count last night was 6.5 while this afternoon (around 1700) it was 4.9. Would metal stick to the sides of the pool? It seems weird to me that algae could survive with the FC count as high as it is. It's been above 5...

Clear green

Here's the numbers for today: Free Chlorine: 6.5, Combined Chlorine: 0, PH: 7.8, CYA: 60, ALK: 100, Salt: 2600, Calcium: 150. My wife did shock the pool last night. It may be algae. There appears to be green colored bubbles in the skimmer a lot the past few days. We have put clarifier in the...

I'll have my wife take a picture and get a full set of water parameters and try to post it tomorrow. We're not using well water, city water. Don't believe that we added copper containing algaecides, but will ask the wife. Thank you.

Another issue now, though, it may be related. Our numbers look good, but the water is green. I figured out that the electrodes had to be replaced and we ran out of chlorine crystals. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be algae, but since I'm new to this, I could very well be wrong. Would new...

Thank you Deb04. I appreciate it.

Sorry, that I keep asking dumb questions, I'm new to all this. One more question, can I add the stabilizer and the chlorine to the pool at the same time? Or do you recommend adding the stabilizer first, and once the numbers are upto 30, add the chlorine.

So, according to PoolMath, I need to add 3 lbs of Dry Stabilizer to get it to 30, but I also have Pool Calculator that says to add 30 oz to get it there. That doesn't make sense to me. Also, it looks like I need to add 9.6 oz of my dry chlorine to get the FC to 3ppm (I use HTH CAL HYPO 56% -...

Ok, so when the dot becomes obscured, that's the CYA reading....so if the dot is clear at 30, that's a bad sign.

Also, our FC count is .2 yesterday. We did the OCLT test last night and got .2 last night and .2 this morning.

Good morning PoolStored, Quick question for you. For the CYA, when we test our pool, we completely fill the tube (30) right now and can still see the black dot at the bottom, according to step 2 that you outlined above, I need to add stabilizer so that we it eventually becomes cloudy at the 70...

Good morning, 1. Yes, we filled the CYA test tube to the top and the water was still clear 2. Not sure, will have to figure out how to check that 3. Pump and SWCG are separated. Right now, I am running the pump 24/7 On Saturday, the pool started turning green, so I shocked it over night...

Good morning, Our numbers yesterday were: Free Chlorine = 1 PPM Combined Chlorine = 2 PPM PH = 7.9 Alk = 110 Calcium = 70 Cyrn Acid = Not cloudy Salt = 4000 Right now, we're using test strips to test the salt levels (though, these strips might be old - from previous owner).

We are new to the saltwater pool crew and our levels are weird to me. My pool is a circular above ground pool with a diameter of 24' and depth of 4'. We had a rather large rain storm last night and my salt levels are 4000, but the chlorine levels are a little low. If the pool is supposed to...

Good evening everyone. My family and I just purchased our new home and a salt water pool came with it. As I have never been very good at taking care of pools and have never taken care of a salt water pool. Though, after only 4 days, I've already clogged the sand pump. And am trying to figure out...