Clear water turned very cloudy overnight

[john0886]

So..I have a bit of an interesting case here. Opened yesterday: pool was as clear as it could be with some algae on the bottom. I get everything balanced, vacuum up some of the algae and debris on the bottom, then add some stabilizer to get the CYA levels up slightly. Everything looks good; checked the levels multiple times throughout the day and the pool stays clear.

Next morning, I wake up, and the pool is very murky. Not green murky, but white. All the levels are good, CC is at 0.0 and everything else looks good. Is this just some of the dead algae mixing in with the water that will need to be filtered out, or perhaps the addition of the stabilizer made it cloudy until it fully dissolves?

 

[john0886]

And for the record, I do think what I saw in the bottom was an algae-dirt mixture, although I’m 99% the algae was dead since the water temps were 40-50. Maybe it’s just the dead algae getting mixed with the water and that’s what’s causing the clouding?

 

[kimkats]

You had a one/two punch to make the water cloud up............brushing and mixing up the stuff and adding CYA=a cloudy pool that needs some filter love. I would push your FC levels up to SLAM level as seen here:
SLAM Process and running the filter 24/7 while brushing to keep every thing up for the filter to get to.

 

[john0886]

You had a one/two punch to make the water cloud up............brushing and mixing up the stuff and adding CYA=a cloudy pool that needs some filter love. I would push your FC levels up to SLAM level as seen here:
SLAM Process and running the filter 24/7 while brushing to keep every thing up for the filter to get to.

Thanks for the help! Really appreciate it!

 

[Newdude]

the algae was dead since the water temps were 40-50.

Algae goes dormant at lower temps. It could have been the start of a bloom laying in wait, but it would have gotten milky soon after adding FC. So my guess is it just needs time to be filtered, whayever it was. Basically you are at the back half of a SLAM where it is a waiting game with the filter.

Brush 2+ times a day and run 24/7 as Kim suggested. Get the FC up to SLAM and maintain it (will be easy at this stage and temp) just because. You do not want to loose the upper hand.

Monitor and clean the filter for 25% PSI increases.