Recent content by mjfoley62

I know! I have also ran out of 871. I wish I had kept track of how many gallons of bleach I have used. Just put in 10 more tonight! I'm beginning to think it would have been cheaper to join the country club and use their pool!

Thanks for the fast reply. Looks like I'm back to shocking again. :(

I know it's been a while since I posted but I have just been waiting patiently for my pool to clear. Once we got past the green stage and was holding FC level overnight, I quit shocking and just waited for the cloudiness to go away. Yesterday I could finally see the third step. I thought we...

Yes. I test, check the pool calculator, add bleach, wait about an hour and test again.

Surely I must be missing something here. My pool is still so cloudy I can barely see the first step. When I brush it turns a little gray and I am still finding these little green bug or worm looking things. I test and bring the FC up to 18 every morning. By the time I get home in the...

The closest trees are about 30 feet or so from the pool. But that is where the wood line starts. This is only our second season with the pool but we never saw anything like this last year. I'm still waiting on the cloudy pool to clear so I can see the bottom and vacuum them to waste.

Thanks for the link. I just sent them a picture. Hopefully they can identify it. I called the local collage to see if I could get an old Biology professor of mine to take a look at it, but unfortunately he is not teaching any classes this summer. I'll let you guys know if I found out anything.

Just wanted to give you guys an update. I'm still testing, shocking and brushing. Water is blue gray and cloudy. When I brush I'm still getting poufy clouds of green but not as much as a few days ago. Still keeping chlorine level around 16 - 18 ppm. Lost 4 ppm overnight last night. We go...

My FC has been between 16 and 18 for a couple of days now. What freaks me out is that they are still alive after all that!

With a lot of help from you guys on here, we are well on our way to getting our pool blue again. However, we have come across these green worm looking things in the debris that we are scooping out. There are hundreds of them in piles on the bottom of the pool. They are still alive after 2...

Still testing, shocking, brushing every hour. I'm still loosing about 2.5 ppm FC per hour. CC remains about 1 ppm. All while fending off friends and family who want to know when they can swim! I'm looking for some POP!

I got my test kit supplement for chlorine a few days and love it! I used the pool calculator to make adjusts on the balance. Here are my numbers as of this morning: FC 13.5 ppm (FC was 18 last night) CC 1 ppm TA 100 pH 7.4 CYA 40 Pool is not green anymore but very very cloudy. I'm still...

That does sound so much easier! Thank you! I will order that right away!

I paid $64 for a test kit from Leslie's that I have been using. What is the difference between the Leslie's kit and the TF kit?

I have been reading Pool School for the past few weeks and have learned so much. However, I can't seem to get ahead of my algae situation. Our problems all started after Hurricane Ike. We were out of our house for almost a month and were so busy with clean up and repairs around the house...