GOT MY KIT... Tested my water... HELP!!
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Personally, I'd wait until you could see what you were vacuuming, especially since the pool is so small. For now, if you suspect there is debris in there (leaves, dead animals, etc), use your leaf rake (the net) to scoop as much out as you can.
Nah its mostly algae that was on the bottom and what I scrubbed off the walls... I used the scoop to pull up some of it and its slimy algae... the dead animals already floated to the top hahaha
Alright, caught up here, so your volume may be turning out less than you thought, but no biggie. Just means less Bleach will be needed, and that's never a bad thing. Are you working regular 12s throughout this process? If so, try to spend as much time on it yours days off as possible, or have someone check it while youre at work if you can, and it will go faster. Repeating here, but we cannot over stress that anything at all you can net off the bottom will help a lot.
Okay... The pool is now a milky whitish green... I woke up and lost 1/2 of the FC from 20 to 10... added what pool math said to add and will recheck in a few hours. I will scoop what I can off the bottom and see where that goes. I am working nights so I can address the pool all day other than the 4 or 5 hrs I am asleep.
That will work just fine. Try to test every couple of hours for now (when you're awake) until you start to see less of a drop in FC between tests, then you can begin to space your testing out.
Thank you for the reply ... Yesterday during the day in between checking I was only losing 2 to 3 ppm .. overnight I lost 10. How soon should I start seeing it clear up
The milky-whitishness you're seeing right now is mostly dead algae.
The first step as you're SLAMming is that you'll see the pool go from green, to a milky green, then to a milky bluish. From there, the pool should start to clear up as the filter begins to remove all of the dead algae floating around in there. You're on track, just have to keep chlorine levels up.
The first step as you're SLAMming is that you'll see the pool go from green, to a milky green, then to a milky bluish. From there, the pool should start to clear up as the filter begins to remove all of the dead algae floating around in there. You're on track, just have to keep chlorine levels up.
I can't remember, did you remove the filters to just recirc like Blizzle suggested? If so then.... install them when you can be around to clean them when the pressure gets high so you can start filtering stuff out.
Be ready for fast pressure rise during the intial clearing stages. It will be a lot of hassle to start, but once this is done, not so much at all.
I'm excited for you MEdic. Just keep following the suggestions form folks here step-by-step.
haha... It's a blueish white and I am going to vacuum it because I suspect theres more organic material than I thought on the bottom so it will be a partial drain and refill so I may have to start over (sort of)
It's ok if you lose some water and stabilizer. It will be well worth it to get out any debris, or whatever might be consuming your FC.
yeah that was my thoughts too... I can always start again and with less organic material theoretically it should go quicker.
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