jeanne3434
04-06-2014, 12:42 AM
Hi I have tiny black dots in my pool. I went to pinch a penny and they said it was black algae. They recommended taking a chlorine tablet and scrubbing the small specks. They also said that I will never get rid of it and may need to resurface my pool. My pool is only 7 months old. I have gone weekly to this store to get it tested, but missed last week because I was away.
Theses were the stats today before I added 1.7 pounds of stabilizer, 40 pounds of salt and 1 gallon of muriatic acid, and spent the entire day searching for and scrubbing the black dots with a chlorine tablet.
Pool size- 10,884 gallons
Total chlorine- 1.0 ppm
Free chlorine-1.0 ppm
Combined chlorine-0 ppm
PH 8
Acid demand 6
Total alkalinity-125ppm
Calcium hardness-375ppm
Stabilizer-50 ppm
Total dissolved solids-5,000ppm
Salt 3800ppm
I would really like to shock my pool using chlorine bleach and do whatever is necessary to get rid of the black algae that has set up residence in my new pool.
I am desperate to get this under control as economically as possible. I welcome any advice.
Thank you.
Jeanne
Theses were the stats today before I added 1.7 pounds of stabilizer, 40 pounds of salt and 1 gallon of muriatic acid, and spent the entire day searching for and scrubbing the black dots with a chlorine tablet.
Pool size- 10,884 gallons
Total chlorine- 1.0 ppm
Free chlorine-1.0 ppm
Combined chlorine-0 ppm
PH 8
Acid demand 6
Total alkalinity-125ppm
Calcium hardness-375ppm
Stabilizer-50 ppm
Total dissolved solids-5,000ppm
Salt 3800ppm
I would really like to shock my pool using chlorine bleach and do whatever is necessary to get rid of the black algae that has set up residence in my new pool.
I am desperate to get this under control as economically as possible. I welcome any advice.
Thank you.
Jeanne