Do pets ever track algae into pools?

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A dirty hand, or paw, is a proverbial drop in the 10k gallon bucket for you.

Maybe your pool.has a higher than average amount of organic matter blowing/falling in. The solution is to 'run hot' and add a couple PPM extra FC to your target.
 
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DeptOfMeteors said:
And I apologize if I seemed angry. I was told something I know not to be true and I guess I'm not very good at contradicting that w/out coming off as bellicose. Also, my mindset when starting this thread was to try to understand this one hypothesis: pets tracking algae from wherever they might pick it up. I wasn't looking to analyze the problem holistically. Next time, maybe I'll make a note that the focus should be confined to the topic.
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I think what everyone is trying to tell you is that algae is universal and cat paws or not, it will find its way to your pool, and cause a problem if not sufficient chlorine. Keep your chlorine up to the high end of the target and even the kitty with algae laden paws should be able to swim laps without causing a problem. You're chasing the wrong issue (it's lack of chlorine not cat paws).
 
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Well I can tell you my pool's salinity now: 1400ppm (which is puzzling, because that's what it was before I did all those backwashes). I had rather an ominous conversation w/the vet about salt poisoning, so I thought I'd look into the concentration. It looks like I've got an even bigger problem than algae for now.
 
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Well I can tell you my pool's salinity now: 1400ppm (which is puzzling, because that's what it was before I did all those backwashes). I had rather an ominous conversation w/the vet about salt poisoning, so I thought I'd look into the concentration. It looks like I've got an even bigger problem than algae for now.
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1,400ppm for a saltwater pool is too low for your salt water chlorine generator to work, which may be part of your issue.

I'm scared to ask, but what are you talking about with salt poisoning? The target range for a salt water pool is ~3,000 ppm. At that level you probably cannot even taste the salt, and it is a fraction of the salinity of seawater.
 
Dept, everyone has you well covered on the topic of eradicating algae. I'm gonna weigh in to say I have 5 indoor cats currently. I tend a colony of 12 ferals who decided to live on my back porch 12 years ago, they drink out of the (salt) pool every day. I haven't ever had algae, and all of the ferals are alive after 12 years, so I don't think a bit of salt is gonna kill your cat! (But keep her inside where it's safe anyway)
 
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JJ_Tex said:
1,400ppm for a saltwater pool is too low for your salt water chlorine generator to work, which may be part of your issue.
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That's ok, the SWG isn't going to produce any since I unplugged it. Originally, my idea was to try to get by on chlorine pucks for the remainder of the season.
JJ_Tex said:
I'm scared to ask, but what are you talking about with salt poisoning? The target range for a salt water pool is ~3,000 ppm. At that level you probably cannot even taste the salt, and it is a fraction of the salinity of seawater.
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I'm talking about How likely are pets (cats) to suffer salt poisoning?. The conversation about how little SLAMming I'm doing and how unbalanced my chems are is for another time.
 
We had labs that used to drink our pool water and I keep the salt level in the 3000-3500 range. They’d throw up soon after drinking it, but it never stopped them. Other than that, no ill effects.
 
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