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Hi, I’ve been battling yellow mustard algae since end of June with a vacation here and there. Never had this stuff before. Read interesting thread from 2007. First, I live in Central NY, home of the perpetual cloud. We do have summer in July and early to mid August. Seems like the Experts live...

Good morning. I have some yellow mustard algae. Vacuumed , brushed, scrubbed, repeat. Difficult to eradicate. Raised the CL to 30, not maintaining on OCLTs, drops to 22. Due to heavy rains and storms, hadn’t checked in a day. Dropped to 17, and maintains at that. Water clear, no sign of...

Got some algae, doing a SLAM. Maintaining FC @ 20. Can I enter the pool, to vacuum and brush? I find it difficult to do a thorough job outside our above ground pool. Thank you!

I have had few issues with my pool since I found TFP years back. Until now. We went on vacation for 2 weeks, added additional liquid chlorine, and a few pucks in a floating dispenser, as my CYA was low enough. When we returned, there was a bit of algae on the floor and on the shady walls...

Hi, I have algae, it’s a medium yellow-green, appears rather slimy, but dissipates when I brush, like a powder. On the bottom in large patches and on the steps and walls. Unsure if it’s green or mustard. Unfortunately, I had bad asthma and allergies for a few weeks and was unable to care for...

Hi, just opened our pool three days ago. Didn’t take initial sample of lovely murky ice tea water. Water temperature 54°F. First reading after adding 5 gal liquid chlorine, FC, CC,TC,all 0. pH- 7.1, TA-125, CA-140, CYA-0. Added 2.5 gal liquid chlorine, FC-20, CC -2, TC-23, pH-7, CYA-0. Pool...

We opened our above ground pool yesterday. No chlorine, cloudy water, leaves. We put 7.50 gallons of superchlor to 12,000 gallon pool. Water cloudy today, but blue instead of looking like iced tea. I tested the water today, using both Aquacheck 7 strips and my trusty Taylor K2005C kit with...

Last year, CYA was at 140. Thanks to fall draining, snow melt and heavy spring rains, we got CYA down to 45. However, due to heavy summer rain and having to drain a lot of water out, we are below 30 now. My question is, since we switched to liquid chlorine instead of pucks, and I have a lot of...

I didn't see any threads with regard to these critters! Found one yesterday, gross. I believe it's there as we were on vacation, the FC fell to almost zero and had a bit of algae form. Well, how do I prevent a boatman breakout? I bought Biogard Backup 2 and raised the FC to 8.5, pH 7.5. I am...

Our pool was pristine, until we went on vacation for a week. Upon return, I noticed the pool was cloudy and the FC was negligible. pH around 7. Added liquid chlorine to 5, adjusted pH to 7.5. Still cloudy, bumped FC to 8.5. Getting clearer now. My problem is that I took a sample to a pool store...

We are going on vacation for 10 -14 days. The current values are FC/TC 4.5, CC 0, pH 7.2- just added a bit of Up, TA 100, CH 140 and CYA 50. (We were using the tabs for years and last year the CYA was 140! Thanks to snow melt, heavy rain and multiple draining, we have manage to lower CYA to a...

We just closed our 15x30 ag pool. We have a solid cover, vacuumed all debris, drained the water below the skimmer and used a skimmer plate and put a plug in the filter outlet. In years past, we would use the packets of shock in the pool prior to closing, but with our CYA so high, we just added...

Ok. Being new to all this, I am trying to understand. For 30 years, I have used the pucks, without many problems. Two years ago we had the liner replaced and refilled pool. Recently, My granddaughter complained of burning eyes, which began my journey to TFPC. I threw out the strips and got a...

Hi, I am the pool mom. For 30 years I have ( successfully??) used the chlorine pucks, test strips or a 2 part drop test. I thought I was doing pretty good! Just last week my granddaughter began complaining about burning eyes. But the pool is crystal clear, my readings were a bit high, except for...