Hello everyone!
My fiance and I bought our first house in January and moved in in February. The house came with a pool (stats below), which she is excited about (me not so much... you will find out why shortly).
Pool Stats:
My most recent test results:
Story time!
When we opened the pool, water was crystal clear. There was algae and leaves on the bottom of the pool, but water was clear. I vaccumed as best as I could, but water became too cloudy to see anything. I left the filter and pump to run 24/7 to see if it would clear up. The green color went away after a few days and turned a cloudy blue color. That is where my trouble started. TA was measured by the pool store above 250. So i started adding muriatic acid to combat the high TA. This, as I came to understand, nuked my pH all the way down to about 6.8. The other night I added some pH Increaser I got from the pool store. This upped the pH slightly to 6.9 and got the TA to about ~130. I then added 2 boxes of Borax to try to bring the pH up again (knowing fully that it would increase TA also) and arrived at the numbers you see above. My pool is now a cloudy blue/green color and I feel like I am running in circles. I only have a return jet available for aeration. Help?
My fiance and I bought our first house in January and moved in in February. The house came with a pool (stats below), which she is excited about (me not so much... you will find out why shortly).
Pool Stats:
- Above ground
- 24 ft x 4ft deep - ~14000 gallons (makes the math easier)
- Cartridge filter
- Filter is a Hayward Swimpro Voyager model SW150. Pump is a Hayward model (unsure of model number)
- I do have a Nature2 chlorinator inline. Currently, it has a bad cartridge in it (haven't been able to find a replacement) and no chlorine tabs.
- Our water is a combination of well and water from a few nearby rivers that is treated. It is hard, but nothing extraordinary. We do not have a private well.
My most recent test results:
- FC: 0
- CC: 0
- pH: ~7.2
- TA: ~160
- CH: ~240
- CYA: 0
Story time!
When we opened the pool, water was crystal clear. There was algae and leaves on the bottom of the pool, but water was clear. I vaccumed as best as I could, but water became too cloudy to see anything. I left the filter and pump to run 24/7 to see if it would clear up. The green color went away after a few days and turned a cloudy blue color. That is where my trouble started. TA was measured by the pool store above 250. So i started adding muriatic acid to combat the high TA. This, as I came to understand, nuked my pH all the way down to about 6.8. The other night I added some pH Increaser I got from the pool store. This upped the pH slightly to 6.9 and got the TA to about ~130. I then added 2 boxes of Borax to try to bring the pH up again (knowing fully that it would increase TA also) and arrived at the numbers you see above. My pool is now a cloudy blue/green color and I feel like I am running in circles. I only have a return jet available for aeration. Help?