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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    I scrubbed a number of vitamin c tablets on the walls and it does have an effect. However, no effect on the black spots. That at least gives me hope that my plaster can look less cruddy if I do some ascorbic acid treatment and sequestrant. I will probably get the culator also. Some metal...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    I'm getting some vitamin c tablets today to test on the brown area to see if it's metal staining or not. I know it's possible since I used the stain remover stuff, and my filter needed to be changed so I think the metal staining that was removed possibly just got re-deposited.. Though I'm also...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    I honestly have no idea. I definitely had black algae on the tile grout, so I suspect it's algae starting on the plaster. Maybe I caught it before it got as big as yours? I've had the chlorine at 20+ since Oct 31. But I don't know. When I brush the spots they get a bit smaller but don't...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    Interesting. They are much smaller there than they were because I had already scrubbed them. I just took this photo. That area is the dark spot I've seen, that has some black spots on it, I think... But could just be how it looks in the pic. The other spots have formed around that general area...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    Yes they're just like the attached. I scrubbed the new ones and now it's dark so I can't really get new pics yet. These were after I brushed them also, so they were a little bigger. All signs point to black algae because of the chunks I found on the tile grout and turned green when I smooshed...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    Thanks! WFH helps the ability to keep up on it more than I normally would be able to! I had a terrible dream last night.. I woke up to images in my head of there being a thick layer of black slime all over the pool! 😬 This morning there was a new black spot on that same wall where most of the...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    Great Info... Thank you! I had my SWG on until this afternoon, I had forgotten to turn it off. Should I turn it back on at night to help maintain the SLAM level until I can check it in the morning before work? I think right now I may need to worry more about keeping it at SLAM or + rather than...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    Question... Since I had already been gradually increasing my chlorine via my SWG prior to starting SLAM, will it work as intended? I feel like my water is clearer but I also feel like a couple of the spots I posted pics of, have come back after they faded a little from the scrubbing. Or maybe I...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    Note to add for future readers: I learned that Hayward advises against lubing the filter head gasket. I also read that can cause it to break down and not seal as well as it should which I thought you lubed to help it seal better. Apparently theirs are engineered in such a way that it's not...
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    Black Algae Starting - Please Help!

    Thanks! Too bad I saw tons of fibers and specks of blue stuff in the filters... Now I'm worried it's from the PVC pipes. Probably from when I used the stain remover and it told me to keep the pH super low 😡 Hopefully that's not what it was, but if it was from the pipes, hopefully it won't be any...
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