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Well, they got me. I bought 20 lbs (two 10 lb buckets) of "baking soda" from them prior to realizing it was the mulch dye and used 10 lbs initially. Once I realized it wasn't my TA and just the mulch, I returned the other tub. Thanks for the input.

It never did this the first time when we had the trees plated with black mulch. Although it also hadn't rained heavy here in Texas for a few months either. Based on the threads James posted earlier, no immediate action required right now, correct? This will clear up in a few days after rain stops

Okay, my pool builder may have figured it out for me. Right off the bat he said it could be mulch running into the pool. In the last 2 days, we've had some heavy rains in our area. The issue started 2 days ago when the water looked a bit black and then last night we had thunderstorms with heavy...

Seems to be surface level only.

Yep, I don't ever go to Leslie's but went there to get the water tested for metals. I posted the image with the test results above. It seems like the TA was fine on my results but can that be incorrect?

Leslie's test results. My FC and PH match closely. He said Total Alkalinity (TA) was very low and he hasn't seen it that low in a long time. In my recent quest to lower TA, I've been dumping Muriatic Acid without really measuring at all. Could my testing TA results be messed up? Also, what...

Here are the latest testing results. Keep in mind I put 128oz of LC yesterday evening so this morning the chlorine level is high but could go down if it's algae. Could this be black algae? I'm using the K-1000 and TF-100 test kits for my chlorine pool (no salt water).

Pop-up on pic.

We're so busy with the flights tomorrow that I'm afraid I won't have time to go thru the opening of the filter. I've only done it a couple of times being a new pool owner (2021) so not confident I'll get it put back together in a short amount of time. Last time I opened it I had a difficult time...

Here's some pics with pumps on. I'll check if the sun shelf pop up is spitting out dark water when it's rotates to that zone.