My green pool I need suggestions

[kountrygal]

Hi yawl..I'm Connie here in Shreveport, La. My pool is very green. I keep buying the recommended chemicals that store is selling me but it is not clearing my pool Up 3 bags of shock and a gallon of something else the next day the poll ends up really cloudy you can't see past the second step on the ladder can someone please tell me what I need to put in my pool to get clear water the pool is 18000 gallons of water thank you so much all I appreciate you.

 

[MarianParoo]

How about ordering a recommended testkit? Pool School - Test Kits Compared

You could then add about 3/4 jug of chlorine until it arrives. That will help.

Learn about our methods in these links:
Pool School - ABCs of Pool Water Chemistry
Pool School - Recommended Pool Chemicals
Pool School - PoolMath

Glad to have you here!

 

[Jimrahbe]

Welcome to TFP, you will love it here...

I know it sounds just like one of those late-night TV commercials.. Buy this.. and it will cure cancer and bad breath.. But, that is not really the case here. Before we can help you fix your pool problems, we need reliable test data from your pool. Pool store tests, or other test kits, do not provide the data we need to be able to help you. Look through some of the bazillion posts here and you will see what I mean.

We will need the following chemical levels, and the only way to do that is to buy one of the recommended tests. The tests are easy to do, and you, not the pool store, control the quality and accuracy of the tests.

FC
CC
pH
TA
CH
CYA

Each of the above tests are somewhat interrelated, so it is very important for us to have accurate test data. We do this by asking everyone to use the same basic test kit, so that we are always comparing apples to apples.

Thanks,

Jim R.