Cloudy water

[mbpoolq]

Hello, I have a cloudy pool & need some advice. It was crystal clear until Saturday evening. We had a storm come up, wind and a torrential downpour for about 45 mins. When I got up Sunday it was a tiny bit cloudy. I checked chemicals, made adjustments. It looked a little better yesterday but still not sparkling. Tested chemicals and adjusted. Today it's even more cloudy. Here are readings:

FC 12.5
CC .5
PH 7.6
TA 180
CH 210
CYA 35

I'm in the Houston area so high temps. The pool is approx 26,000-28,000 gallons, in direct sunlight from 10:00am-4:30/5:00pm. Pool has a waterfall and sprayers; we've turned them down to allow more pool circulation and less aeration. Were running the pump 10 hrs daily but taking to 12, what we ran it last yr. Also my robotic cleaner broke last Thurs, so circulation is suffering. I use unstabilized chlorine due to CYA getting too high, but dropped 2nd pucks into skimmers yesterday.

Any advice is appreciated, you guys are great!!

 

[tim5055]

Anytime a pool goes cloudy you should be thinking about a SLAM Process. But, it's late in the day and yo may not want to start today.

After the sun goes down lets do an Overnight Chlorine Loss Test to see if something is actually growing

 

[mbpoolq]

I will test right before bed then 1st thing in the morming. Thanks!!

 

[mbpoolq]

Good afternoon! Just wanted to say the pool is clear now, has been since the day after I posted. I did the overnight chlorine test and chlorine held. I think there may have been a little dead algae that had to clear. Sure wish we could get some cloudy days though, I'm going thru a lot of chlorine and muriatic acid!

Thanks for your help!