Thankfully I found this forum, as stated my pool store has ripped me off for the last time.
Last year (first time pool owner) I fought algae all year long, even with weekly shocking. This year I said I'm going salt and dont care how long it takes to get the water just right. Well....guess after dropping a few hundred at the pool store was not the brightest idea.
The pool was a nice blue color before the salt. I got a SWG, let the chlorine from the tablets get as far down to zero as possible. We had about 1ppm before the switch. I installed the SWG and put in 4 bags of salt per the pool store. They told me to put all 4 bags in and keep the SWG on the middle setting (50%) on my unit (CircuPool SJ-40). The next day the pool was greenish, the second day it was greener and cloudy.
Back to the pool store I went - water was out of balance. FC of 10ppm, pH of 8, CYA of 80ppm, CH of 425ppm. They said to add in 4 cups of muratic acid and to turn off the chlorinator until the levels come down. Pool still green tint after that. They gave me some anti stain stuff for salt and poured the whole bottle in along with ClearRite. It cleared up the cloudyness over night. Pumps have been running for a week stright now.
All that to say this - pool still has a green hue to it, not as bad as it was before, cleaned the filters out twice so far and they were not bad, almost clean. No green stuff on them. If I turn on the water feature, agitation of the water causes foam (disipates quickly).
How do I get rid of this last green hue and the foam...I'm not going back to the pool store, test kit has been ory. Just don't know where to start...miss my blue water....
12,000 gallon pool, central florida.
Last year (first time pool owner) I fought algae all year long, even with weekly shocking. This year I said I'm going salt and dont care how long it takes to get the water just right. Well....guess after dropping a few hundred at the pool store was not the brightest idea.
The pool was a nice blue color before the salt. I got a SWG, let the chlorine from the tablets get as far down to zero as possible. We had about 1ppm before the switch. I installed the SWG and put in 4 bags of salt per the pool store. They told me to put all 4 bags in and keep the SWG on the middle setting (50%) on my unit (CircuPool SJ-40). The next day the pool was greenish, the second day it was greener and cloudy.
Back to the pool store I went - water was out of balance. FC of 10ppm, pH of 8, CYA of 80ppm, CH of 425ppm. They said to add in 4 cups of muratic acid and to turn off the chlorinator until the levels come down. Pool still green tint after that. They gave me some anti stain stuff for salt and poured the whole bottle in along with ClearRite. It cleared up the cloudyness over night. Pumps have been running for a week stright now.
All that to say this - pool still has a green hue to it, not as bad as it was before, cleaned the filters out twice so far and they were not bad, almost clean. No green stuff on them. If I turn on the water feature, agitation of the water causes foam (disipates quickly).
How do I get rid of this last green hue and the foam...I'm not going back to the pool store, test kit has been ory. Just don't know where to start...miss my blue water....
12,000 gallon pool, central florida.