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I am having real trouble lowering my phosphate levels, they are over 1000. My most recent readings are Total Hardness: <25ppm, pH: 7.2, TA: 100, CYA 50-100, Free Chlorine 1, Total Chlorine 1, Salt 1750, Phosphates 1000 (maybe higher?), and the water is slightly cloudy. I have a new Hot...

If I leave the water undisturbed for 24 hours it is perfectly clear. Upon any movement in the water, a “cloud” appears. When I look into the water after starting to vacuum on waste, I can see millions of tiny particles that appear white in the water. I have vacuumed on waste several times and...

Hi All, I am brand new to pool ownership and hoping for some insight on why my pool is cloudy. It’s blue but cloudy :( I have an 18,000 gallon inground pool and have been home testing ph, chlorine, and alkalinity daily as well as vacuuming daily. I replaced my cartridge filter about 3 days ago...

Hi all! I've been dealing with a super cloudy/hazy pool for about 2 weeks now and no matter what I've done to clear it up (inexplicable amounts of shock, conditioner, stabilizer, alkalinity-up, clarifier, baking soda, algicide, etc.), I have had no luck. For some inexplicable reason, the...

I am recovered from a bad algae outbreak - now passing the overnight test (two nights in row). My TF-Pro test kit gives me: CH: 200 (goal is 300) CYA: ~20 (currently adding, goal is 40) pH: 7.5 (goal) TA: 100 (goal is 80) Shallow end is 3 (or 3.5 feet) and I can barely see the bottom the...

Hello! This is our third summer with our above ground pool, we bought the house with the pool so had to learn as we went. We have a DE filter but this summer we have really been struggling. At first we thought it was a bad pollen issue, bottom Of the pool was always green. When I would take the...

Hey friends, typically I have no issues with my pool (or no issues that I can't solve easily by balancing, cleaning and patience). My pool is an above ground, vinyl liner, salt water pool. Chlorinator is cleaned and operating normally, Pump and cartridges have been cleaned and are operating...

So my pool tends to go green and cloudy when it gets warm. I have adjusted the CL to the 8-9 range since testing but still remains. TA 210 , FC 8, CC0, CYA55, Ph7.2 85f. 12hrs after initial readings: FC 4.5 CC 0 TA 210 CYA 50 Ph 7.5 Temp 85 Currently, I just tested CL and Ph and they are 5+...

Pulled the pump out and setup the pool for the year. Have some issues. Put in new sand this year. Same bag as last year but wanted a clean setup. Got everything attached and working but handle was very hard to rotate. Resolved this by disassembling and cleaning out sand debris. Once back...

Hey all - I was getting a hang of the pool stuff but I think I need help… the past week chlorine FC levels have been dropping fast. 9:30am on 6/13, zero FC chlorine 10:30am on 6/13, added 3 gallons of liquid chorine at 10% bleach. Sand filter backwashed Noon on 6/15, zero FC chlorine, 0.5...

Opened the pool a few weeks ago. Slammed and scrubbed thoroughly. Successfully passed the OCLT test multiple days in a row at SLAM levels. Scrubbed again. Balanced all chemicals and brought the FC to normal levels. The water continues to be hazy after a week of 24/7 pump running. I performed...

Hey all, just bought a new house with a large pool. It was going okay until today when I noticed it was cloudy and the sand filter pressure was high. Uh oh! I open up the chlorinator which was empty and backwashed the filter+cleaned basket. I used my TF-Pro test kit and found out I have ZERO...

I am writing this as a record of my steps in dealing with a situation I'm sure many of my neighbors in Texas are dealing with. In central Texas, the pecan trees are occasionally infested with aphids in late summer. The aphids will suck sap from the underside of the leaves. The sap is under so...

Good morning! We bought a house with a pool in Phoenix, AZ. We've been here for a month now and I've been able to keep the pool in check with liquid chlorine and muriatic acid while testing with a tf test kit that was recommended here. I've done a few backwashes, however, during my last...

Hi all. For weeks now I've been yo-yoing back and forth between lowering my chlorine, adding chemicals to treat metal staining on entire surface of my pool and then once clear adding chlorine back in and then watching the staining come back. What's more is that in treating the metal staining my...

I’m so glad I found this site on Reddit, I’m hoping you experts will be able to help. I recently purchased a vinyl sided Intex brand pool secondhand. It uses the basic Intex filter with A/C cartridges. Approximately 3500 gallons. We really thought we were just going to fill this puppy up and...

Hi all - I’m kinda at the end of my knowledge here, so coming here to troubleshoot. I have balanced water, but my clarity isn’t great. In previous years, I’ve always had the “I can see the type of screw in my bottom drain” clarity, but I just can’t get there this year. After opening the...

Over the past few months, I have become the "chemical czar" over 800,000 gallons spread out over four pools in three locations. This has been a 100% learning by doing, TFP and YouTube exercise. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. One of my outdoor pools is a 126,000-gallon...

Hi everyone and thanks in advance for any help… so I am a new fiberglass pool (21k gal) owner and although I’ve had the pool for a little under a year, construction is lingering on it on and now we’re getting ready to complete everything. We’re just north of Atlanta so you know what the weather...

Just bought a house that the owners didn't take care of the pool very well. It's 35k gallons with sand filter and SWG (not using yet due to swamp). CYA was below min reading of test, so been working on adding enough CYA to get to 40ppm and using a FC target of 20ppm. SLAMed for 2 days, using 24...

We’ve had the tub (Jacuzzi 280) for just about a month (we only wear certain bathing suits for the hot tub). I’ve followed all their steps in preparing the water and what it takes on a weekly basis. Opened it with Spa Boss spa shock, spa boss chlor aid, spa boss spa marvel and spa marvel alka...

Backstory: Bought house with pool in January. Got it going good with yalls advise. I bought a stenner pump and a drum of chlorine. its been going good. I go on vacation last week, i thought i had plenty chlorine in the stenner but i was wrong. Got home saturday to a very green pool. I poured a...

We have a 12X24 saltwater filter Intex. Si Cel we opened it this summer it’s been cloudy/milky all the chemicals are fine. Ph level, alkalinity, chlorine (had water tested at leslies) we’ve shocked, clarified ran the pump, clean the filters. Water is still milky. What can we do? Is it safe to...

Hello, I opened my pool on Monday and was treated to a green mess. I brought up my CYA to 30 from 0 and maintained a FC level of 12, checking every 3 hours. After about 24 hours, the pool turned blue, but even now, 6 days later, it is still very cloudy. I have a very oversized DE filter for my...

I have a 15' above ground pool and following a week of intense storms, my chlorine levels dropped and the water became milky. I shocked the pool and used Leslie's UltraBright Advanced to clarify the water, with the expectation that I would be able to vacuum the muck. It;s been 10 days and I just...

Hello. New here. I am consistently having this dust looking stuff at the bottom of my pool after the water settles. I thought it was just our hard water ch(225) I vacuum to wasteland.the.time and it just keeps coming back. We do live next to a gravel road so I’m beginning to wonder if it’s...

This has started happening again just now this season, and it also happened last summer about partway through the season. One day everything is normal, and then the next time I add chlorine, I can see it forming a visible white cloud as it moves trough the water. It doesn’t dissipate quickly...

Hi all - New on the forum and need some help diagnosing a weird white cloud that is getting kicked up when I brush my pool. Here's the story. I've been using chlorine bleach for the last few years to maintain FC, as opposed to tablets of any sort. In the last month I discovered the...

Hello All, I am a brand new above ground pool owner (27' diameter, 18,500 gallons, sand filter). I have been reading pool school and working to clear my pool but am not having any luck so far. I am attempting the SLAM process, and so far the water has turned from green to blue, but is...