Recent content by Kraypd

As promised here is my after picture sans duck and algae. Still have some staining that I will deal with later after I get the light back in and adjust water. Perhaps regular brushing with my water whale will do the trick. Sorry for the rotated images. Not sure how to get this right

Thanks Kim. Good to know I'm not going crazy. I FINALLY PASSED MY OFCT AM! I still have an area of mustard algae in the shallow shady area and what I believe are the last remnants of green organic staining. Thought this was algae but wih the test results I'm guess it's organic staining...

Thought I was getting close and then this am I noted that I had the heater bypass on. I changed to run through the heater pipes to get any algae that might be in there. When I got home my FC had dropped down to 10 from 24 this AM. My target SLAM is 18 based on CYA of 45 so I've been kicking it...

Need to rename the thread as week four is underway. I've been following the process closely and still seeing daily improvements in the stubborn green spots on the walls. I've increased brushing with the wire brush to twice a day (AM and PM) to try to accelerate things a little bit. I think...

Still going with OFCT reading about 3-4ppm loss. Walls are getting cleaner but still see green patches that lighten after brushing and bringing FC back up in the AM. Paying for years of pool store neglect, I wore out my steel brush and had to buy a new one yesterday. POP is hard but keeping...

I'm using a wire algae brush. I ordered a wall whale nylon which comes tomorrow but I think the wire brush is better until the algaes gone. Glad the duck and the snake could lighten up your day. It's been funny for me now that I can see I am on the right track.

Well this am while brushing the pool I had a small snake come swimming out of the skimmer. I've gone from a duck to a snake so I guess I'm making progress.�� Hope to have humans in the pool next weekend. Lost 2ppm over night still with the SWG at 30%. Lowest drop I've seen yet...

A few weeks ago I would have said awesome. I think that many of us who are new to the site have lost touch with how the pool is supposed to look. The water is very clear and enticing but I can now see steaks of green on the walls and just below the water line. The true pool color is coming...

Thanks Richard. I'll bump up to 25 in the AM and at night. I forgot to mention that been leaving the SWG on around 40% throughout my SLAM. Once my OFCT passes with it running I'll start turning it off as I'll be getting closets the end. My pool store had me hitting it with shock and algecide...

i've been fighting algae for a long time with the local pool store recipe to no avail. My pool got so bad I actually had a duck fly in and camp out for an hour two weeks ago. That duck sent me a message to find another way and I was so happy to find this site. I started slamming before my...