Started SLAMing lastnight, our mustard algae situation never seems to resolve for more than a few weeks... I have done this before... I am confused.
We brushed 2x yesterday.
Left pump on 24/7.
Woke up-- LONG ring of yellow in the shallow end---- like a 10' curve of yellow streak!
Tested-- only lost 1.5ppm overnight... isnt that confusing? To SEE algae growing but it's barely eating chlorine? ANd, i keep getting 0.0 CC.
My CYA reading (which was tough to get, I had to use the other CYA test thing to compare and fighure out my CYA-- I was still seeing the dot in all types of light/shade)... I got 40CYA-- when my husband got chlorine from Pinch a Penny yesterday he asked them to test CYA just to see what they got, they got 50. So-- should I use the 50, or 40?
Reading yesterday before we slammed:
FC= 5
CC= 0
ph= 7.4
alk- 80
Calc- 190
CYA= 40
I just signed up for Flickr so I can post a pic to show you the pool- hope it works:
Pool- June 2015 SLAM | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Pool- June 2015 SLAM | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Water seems to maybe be turning gray? But, at the same time-- was so surprised to wake up and see that huge 10 foot line of yellow in the shallow end (I scrubbed it before I thought to take a pic)...
Is it just par for the course? Keep scrubbing, keep going, and it'll be fine?
It is just weird to me that we are not losing much chlorine (I tested at 8:15, then again at 9:15 and we had lost none. Husband is cleaning filter, then we will put pump back on and keep testing...)---and that it;'s a steady 0 CC...
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To clarify-
-Even on a good day, I scrub the pool every single evening and we swim in it DAILY
-We have been gettin a lot of rain
-Currently, it is hard to see the drain-- so it is pretty cloudy
We brushed 2x yesterday.
Left pump on 24/7.
Woke up-- LONG ring of yellow in the shallow end---- like a 10' curve of yellow streak!
Tested-- only lost 1.5ppm overnight... isnt that confusing? To SEE algae growing but it's barely eating chlorine? ANd, i keep getting 0.0 CC.
My CYA reading (which was tough to get, I had to use the other CYA test thing to compare and fighure out my CYA-- I was still seeing the dot in all types of light/shade)... I got 40CYA-- when my husband got chlorine from Pinch a Penny yesterday he asked them to test CYA just to see what they got, they got 50. So-- should I use the 50, or 40?
Reading yesterday before we slammed:
FC= 5
CC= 0
ph= 7.4
alk- 80
Calc- 190
CYA= 40
I just signed up for Flickr so I can post a pic to show you the pool- hope it works:
Pool- June 2015 SLAM | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Pool- June 2015 SLAM | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Water seems to maybe be turning gray? But, at the same time-- was so surprised to wake up and see that huge 10 foot line of yellow in the shallow end (I scrubbed it before I thought to take a pic)...
Is it just par for the course? Keep scrubbing, keep going, and it'll be fine?
It is just weird to me that we are not losing much chlorine (I tested at 8:15, then again at 9:15 and we had lost none. Husband is cleaning filter, then we will put pump back on and keep testing...)---and that it;'s a steady 0 CC...
- - - Updated - - -
To clarify-
-Even on a good day, I scrub the pool every single evening and we swim in it DAILY
-We have been gettin a lot of rain
-Currently, it is hard to see the drain-- so it is pretty cloudy