opening questions for 2023

[Wntrequinx]

quick question, can I SLAM with a solar cover on?
I opened the pool and it was 10 FC from the tabs I left over the winter, 40 CYA. I checked it several days and the FC was solid. So then I put on a solar cover to warm up the pool. First year trying this out. I don't have a reason to SLAM but I figure it couldn't hurt to do so while no one is using the pool yet. So now I want to SLAM, but just realized it may not be ideal to do so with a solar cover on and wanted to ask first. I don't want to take the solar cover off as its a pain to put away for a few days and then bring out again.

Are you losing chlorine to algea or other during the nights? If not, your pool is already the way it would be after a SLAM. I opened mine similarly this year and didn't have to SLAM at all. Might as well save the chlorine if you won't change anything by doing it.

As for the solar cover, I have SLAMed with my cover on, but I don't know how bad it was for the cover. At the time I had to because the broken pockets of the cover had algea I needed to kill too. (That cover is gone now)

Edit: it's probably more helpful to keeping clear while you wait for opening to brush it every few days. That way you don't get tiny algea colonies growing in the imperfections of the pool surface. I've done that with the solar cover on by pulling it back up the edge of the pool on the opposite side I'm brushing/vacuuming on (since brushing frequently is part of a SLAM).