Hey everyone. We have a 16,000 gallon inground fiberglass pool that you might see from some of my previous posts, if you looked, we have been struggling with. Long story short this is the second summer we have had it. Pool builder installed it in fall of 2021 and it was a swamp after the process. We have a mustard algae problem that keeps coming back every time I think it's gone. We have slammed and slammed and slammed multiple times last summer and this summer so far. I used yellow out as a last resort and followed their process after reading amazing reviews online, and I thought it was gone but it's back. We have an auto cover and I keep wondering if the auto cover is harboring it underneath.
Anyway, the water always looks amazing aside from a couple of places where that seems to pop up after a week of jot slamming. I don't really have any issues keeping the water balanced as it should be in those times - just the occasional minor pH adjustment and that's about it. I think you all can actually see my test results from the TF kit. Sometimes I test and forget to actually log them but everything is pretty consistent.
So after some swimming this weekend my 8-year-old developed a rash everywhere her swimsuit touched and a pretty bad case of swimmer's ear. We went to the pediatrician because she has a history of middle and inner ear infections and she said it looked very much like a case of hot tub folliculitis and asked if we had been in one. The only place we've been is out pool, which isn't particularly hot. It just got up to 89 this weekend. It had been around 83. She said it's possible rare to get from a well balanced pool, which was exactly what I thought. Anyway, due to the ear infection she's treating it if that's what it is and used an antibiotic that will cover both plus antibiotic ear drops.
Coincidentally, or maybe not, I also have been finding a few backswimmer bugs in the pool for the last few days. From what I read, it seems like they like algae but I'm not real sure how they get there or how to get rid of them yet.
So everything I can find regarding pseudomonas is related to a hot tub. The one post I can find about a pool was an above ground pool and all the water leaked out of it in the end anyway.
I'm not sure that that's what it is but I'd like to go ahead and take all the precautions necessary. Considering we have the yellow algae that pops back up every few weeks, I'm obviously a little worried about balance.
Can you all give me any advice on treatment in a pool? Considering that is an inground fiberglass pool it's not particularly easy to drain or we would have probably already tried that for the yellow algae. Someone suggested going through the slam process and then also changing the sand in the filter which I was already considering.
Any advice is appreciated!
Anyway, the water always looks amazing aside from a couple of places where that seems to pop up after a week of jot slamming. I don't really have any issues keeping the water balanced as it should be in those times - just the occasional minor pH adjustment and that's about it. I think you all can actually see my test results from the TF kit. Sometimes I test and forget to actually log them but everything is pretty consistent.
So after some swimming this weekend my 8-year-old developed a rash everywhere her swimsuit touched and a pretty bad case of swimmer's ear. We went to the pediatrician because she has a history of middle and inner ear infections and she said it looked very much like a case of hot tub folliculitis and asked if we had been in one. The only place we've been is out pool, which isn't particularly hot. It just got up to 89 this weekend. It had been around 83. She said it's possible rare to get from a well balanced pool, which was exactly what I thought. Anyway, due to the ear infection she's treating it if that's what it is and used an antibiotic that will cover both plus antibiotic ear drops.
Coincidentally, or maybe not, I also have been finding a few backswimmer bugs in the pool for the last few days. From what I read, it seems like they like algae but I'm not real sure how they get there or how to get rid of them yet.
So everything I can find regarding pseudomonas is related to a hot tub. The one post I can find about a pool was an above ground pool and all the water leaked out of it in the end anyway.
I'm not sure that that's what it is but I'd like to go ahead and take all the precautions necessary. Considering we have the yellow algae that pops back up every few weeks, I'm obviously a little worried about balance.
Can you all give me any advice on treatment in a pool? Considering that is an inground fiberglass pool it's not particularly easy to drain or we would have probably already tried that for the yellow algae. Someone suggested going through the slam process and then also changing the sand in the filter which I was already considering.
Any advice is appreciated!
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