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    light green pool

    Just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU! pool is crystal clear and I have been doing the BBB. I have also been preaching your advice to friends and anyone who is interested, I think I converted my neighbor since he sees the great results. Again thank you and I have added this site to my favorites.
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    light green pool

    hi, Well I tested the water this morning myself using the walmart kit and it was a dark dark yellow, tonight it is light orange and I did not add anything since last night, the 2 bags of extra blue shock and the 2 gals of bleach. It actually looks a little lighter in color still cloudy I can...
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    light green pool

    hi again Well I took the pool water to local Leslie Pool and these are the readings they gave me: FAC= 5 TAC= 5 PH= 7.6 CYA = 60 TA= 100 Phosphates = 1000 So they suggested 8 pounds of ALUM, said it would be crystal clear tomorrow but there would be a dust cloud on the bottom and to vacuum...
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    light green pool

    CYA is 80-pool green I have 24 ft round pool- when opening pool water was blackish- cleared it to a cloudy look, using shock and bleach, lots of both. Started getting green- was not holding Chlorine and ph was low, I added bleach, shock, algaecides and clarify, have been keeping a 3" tablet in...
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    light green pool

    Well first let me apologize for not starting a new thread... I will try to keep this from happening again. Well I ran out to Walmart and got the 6 way test kit and here are the readings cya= 80 ppm chlorine was over 5 on the tube..dark dark yellow...the other day it was orange. PH= 7.2 total...
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    light green pool

    [Edit:split post:Please continue your pool clearing/balancing questions in this thread.jjparrish] hi, I have a light green 24 ft above ground pool, have been throwing sock and chlorine tablets in skimmer and a floater, changed sand in filter, chlorine level is very high ph 7.2 ish. when I...