- Jun 29, 2013
- 13
My pool water is cloudy and a little green - it was dark green yesterday, I'm running the filter 24/7. It's a 20,000 gallon in ground gunite pool, has a Pentair Whisperflo 1 hp motor, and Triton II sand filter, Pac FAB mutiport.
We struggle with algae every year, opened the pool late this year so it is fierce! I already put 10!! bags of shock from Costco between yesterday and today, forget that, didn't phase the dark green water, started reading online again like I do every year, went back to the A&P for bleach, done that years before, too. So I put in 7 gallons of bleach total today, the water isn't dark green, only slightly green now, but cloudy. Only trouble is, I can't get a reading above 0 on the Free Chlorine. Here's what shows on the test strips:
PH: 7.8
CC: 10 ppm
FC: 0
Alk: 180
CY: 30
I know it may be cloudy for a while, but should I add more bleach for the Free Chlorine? Third trip to the store today.
Thanks so much!
Sandra
We struggle with algae every year, opened the pool late this year so it is fierce! I already put 10!! bags of shock from Costco between yesterday and today, forget that, didn't phase the dark green water, started reading online again like I do every year, went back to the A&P for bleach, done that years before, too. So I put in 7 gallons of bleach total today, the water isn't dark green, only slightly green now, but cloudy. Only trouble is, I can't get a reading above 0 on the Free Chlorine. Here's what shows on the test strips:
PH: 7.8
CC: 10 ppm
FC: 0
Alk: 180
CY: 30
I know it may be cloudy for a while, but should I add more bleach for the Free Chlorine? Third trip to the store today.
Thanks so much!
Sandra