good water chemistry but ton of algae

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EASpools

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May 1, 2024
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Cusseta, AL
I service this 14k gallon above ground pool once a week and when i stop by i do either 2 pucks or 1 gallon of LQ TO have a FC of 3-4ppm but for some reason this past week it went from perfect to almost swamp green and having running a spin disk test i noticed the phosphates are through the roof! i love using the API! revive as a good flocculant works amazing but i swear even those its advertised to remove phosphates i feel like their lying before my phosphates were 1342 and the day after i used it there at 4700 now

P.H.- 7.5
TA.-70
CYA-20
FC-1
Phosphates-4,000ppb
 
The water chemistry isn’t perfect. CYA of 20ppm won’t adequately protect the chlorine from sunlight degradation with weekly visits.
 
EASpools said:
once a week and when i stop by i do either 2 pucks or 1 gallon of LQ TO have a FC of 3-4ppm
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That will need to be raised considerably once it's hot out. Your liquid dose above is 8.9 FC and pucks are 7.8 FC, and you may lose 4 FC per day soon. You can't just spike it to 30 for the week because it burns off as a %, much faster when the # climbs high.

You guys are getting warm out already and the additions likely weren't cutting it, on top of the low CYA as mentioned above.
 
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