Does Dead Algae clump and fall to the bottom?

[Vince-1961]

This sounds like a silly question, but..... Does dead algae clump and fall to the bottom?

What is this stuff that always needs to be vacuumed up whenever I have to SLAM the pool? At home, my wife thinks it's just debris or pollen from the trees. At Lodge, I thought it was sand from the filter and some folks said it was debris blowing off the three flat roofs surrounding the pool.

 

[atttech-2]

dead algae can settle in the pool.

Edit deferring to Duraleigh on appearance of dead algae. Thanks to this site I have no firsthand knowledge of appearance of dead algae juts what I read.

 

[duraleigh]

It doesn't exactly "clump up", but it does fall to the floor as a brownish=greenish-yellowish "dust" that settles in every crevice and low spot on you pool floor.

When you brush it, it "poofs up but then resettles back down after a short period.

That you are seeing it after a SLAM tells me it is dead algae and not sand, pollen, dirt, etc.

 

[Vince-1961]

Thank you