Ok, everything has been going smooth since I got the water cleared up initially. I think it was a byproduct of the water treatment process that gave the water a slight color, but it eventually filtered out.
Water has gotten progressively better over time...crystal clear for several weeks with just minor upkeep. I started to get a little lax with my maintenance, had a few weeks where I was only checking the water every couple of days...adding chlorine to get me up to the top of the range for my cya and letting it drift back down for a few days, maybe adding a little chlorine here and there for good measure until I had time to test the water. Everything seemed to be working very predictably in terms of chlorine usage, and it still is to this day.
......The problem started about a week or so ago. The water started getting cloudy when we had a stretch of cool weather and we weren't swimming every day, and I started getting a layer of yellowish green stuff in all the horizontal and angled surfaces. Started stirring it up with a brush and stirring it up regularly thinking it was just funk on the bottom of the pool. Chlorine still seemed normal, only using about 1-1.5 ppm each day. Stirring it up seemed to make little progress, just seemed to look the same the next day. Started to wonder if this was mustard algae....but still no abnormal chlorine usage. Vacuumed the pool a couple times this week, still stirring it up every day but the water has an aqua greenish cast to it that doesn't seem to want to budge. Did just switch to the Unicel filters Thursday and have been running the pump nonstop since...cleaning the yellow green funk out of it every day.
After reading a little on the forum in the last day or so, it appears one thing we weren't doing during that cool stretch is brushing the pool and really keeping everything stirred up.
Almost forgot, when I started seeing the cloudy water starting and the funk on the bottom, I checked the pH and it was high, so I added pH lower to get it down. It tested 7.6 the next day. This was probably a week ago. It appears the pH has come up since then.
Current numbers as of now:
FC 7.5
CC .5-1 (had an accidental double drop during testing)
TC 8-8.5
CH 125
TA 120
CYA 40
pH 7.8
Do you think I am likely just dealing with run-of-the-mill algae? ....mustard algae?....or just pollen, it wouldn't turn the water aqua blue/green would it?
I thought my chlorine usage would go up big time if it was algae????
Suggestions are welcome and needed.
Water has gotten progressively better over time...crystal clear for several weeks with just minor upkeep. I started to get a little lax with my maintenance, had a few weeks where I was only checking the water every couple of days...adding chlorine to get me up to the top of the range for my cya and letting it drift back down for a few days, maybe adding a little chlorine here and there for good measure until I had time to test the water. Everything seemed to be working very predictably in terms of chlorine usage, and it still is to this day.
......The problem started about a week or so ago. The water started getting cloudy when we had a stretch of cool weather and we weren't swimming every day, and I started getting a layer of yellowish green stuff in all the horizontal and angled surfaces. Started stirring it up with a brush and stirring it up regularly thinking it was just funk on the bottom of the pool. Chlorine still seemed normal, only using about 1-1.5 ppm each day. Stirring it up seemed to make little progress, just seemed to look the same the next day. Started to wonder if this was mustard algae....but still no abnormal chlorine usage. Vacuumed the pool a couple times this week, still stirring it up every day but the water has an aqua greenish cast to it that doesn't seem to want to budge. Did just switch to the Unicel filters Thursday and have been running the pump nonstop since...cleaning the yellow green funk out of it every day.
After reading a little on the forum in the last day or so, it appears one thing we weren't doing during that cool stretch is brushing the pool and really keeping everything stirred up.
Almost forgot, when I started seeing the cloudy water starting and the funk on the bottom, I checked the pH and it was high, so I added pH lower to get it down. It tested 7.6 the next day. This was probably a week ago. It appears the pH has come up since then.
Current numbers as of now:
FC 7.5
CC .5-1 (had an accidental double drop during testing)
TC 8-8.5
CH 125
TA 120
CYA 40
pH 7.8
Do you think I am likely just dealing with run-of-the-mill algae? ....mustard algae?....or just pollen, it wouldn't turn the water aqua blue/green would it?
I thought my chlorine usage would go up big time if it was algae????
Suggestions are welcome and needed.
