My pool water has been clear but my fc usage has been too high causing me to run my swg IC40 at 80%. Also, getting a lot of milky debris coming off the cartridge filter when I clean it. So, from past experience and comments here, I knew there must be algae hiding somewhere in the system.
It finally dawned on me yesterday to look at the outlet from the auto fill well. I poked my finger in there and dislodged some small pieces of green algae. Then looked into the auto-fill well and poured a small bucket of water into it to flush the pipe into the pool. Bingo! This flushed out a considerable amount of algae slime from the pipe. I then poured bleach into the auto-fill well to kill and flush it. I am going to get a bottle brush to clean the pipe properly; it's 2" diameter and less than a foot long.
Hopefully, this will solve my problem and maybe help others to find where chronic algae is hiding in their pool. An auto-fill system like mine is the perfect place for algae to hide. The fill reservoir contains mostly low chlorine tap water and it has minimal flow into the pool making ideal conditions for algae growth near the outlet where there is some light present. I will be cleaning mine regularly henceforth.
It finally dawned on me yesterday to look at the outlet from the auto fill well. I poked my finger in there and dislodged some small pieces of green algae. Then looked into the auto-fill well and poured a small bucket of water into it to flush the pipe into the pool. Bingo! This flushed out a considerable amount of algae slime from the pipe. I then poured bleach into the auto-fill well to kill and flush it. I am going to get a bottle brush to clean the pipe properly; it's 2" diameter and less than a foot long.
Hopefully, this will solve my problem and maybe help others to find where chronic algae is hiding in their pool. An auto-fill system like mine is the perfect place for algae to hide. The fill reservoir contains mostly low chlorine tap water and it has minimal flow into the pool making ideal conditions for algae growth near the outlet where there is some light present. I will be cleaning mine regularly henceforth.