Re: Too cold for algae?Wrong.Swamp to sparkle in10 days & +/
Mongo said:
I had already ordered some pool stuff a few days earlier (new filter, new VS pump, Taylor test kit, etc), but it hadn't been delivered yet. Locally no one had test kits out, only strips. So I bought strips.
As I'm sure you know, those test strips are, in many ways, worse than guessing. But I understand you do what you gotta do. With that said, it is entirely impossible to "shock" your pool at such high CL levels with anything but the FAS-DPD test. There's just not enough resolution to verify when you're finished shocking.
Mongo said:
Came home last night and the pool was crystal clear. I was pretty surprised, as I figured I'd come home at best to a cloudy gray pool full of dead algae due to having a cartridge filter and the carts not capturing the dead algae. But the pool was indeed crystal clear and colorless, and the filter pressure had increased about 11 psi, so the carts did a good job. One less thing to worry about.
Does this mean you didn't need to replace your old filter after all?
Congrats on having such a nice sparkly clear pool in such a short amount of time, at minimal expenditure to boot. Bravo!!
Mongo said:
More chem to follow though.
You're waiting till you get your proper test kit/refills, right?
Mongo said:
Today I cleaned the cartridges. My new equipment should arrive in a couple of days, so I'm going to give the pool those few days to mellow out Cl-wise before I do any more testing and balancing. Then comes the task of the new pump and filter install.
With all that said, I would highly advise, seeing as you have already dumped all that time & bottles of bleach in there, it would be good to bring it back up to shock level toward evening as the sun goes down and do an OCLT. Make sure you aren't dropping in CL once the sun goes down & before you go to bed, if not, proceed /w the OCLT. Test it before you go to bed, then again just before sunrise with as little light as possible. Compare the two and so long as you loose <1ppm FC, you're good to go.
This makes sure, with 100% certainty, that you eliminated all organics in your pool. Lest they return from a tiny bit missed and at minimum, eat CL faster than normal as a result of still being present over the course of your swim season.
As you may know when it comes to shocking your pool, that last little bit where the water appears completely clear, can be rather deceiving. It can sometimes take longer than the 1st part did, to where it stops consuming CL, in an OCLT that is. At least it can seemingly take an eternity. HAHA