22wendylou
06-19-2007, 01:37 PM
On a daily basis I have some small piles of debris (I'm assuming/pretty sure it's algae) on the bottom of my pool that "poof" when I get near them with my vacuum unless I move very slowly. Being that I've dealt with an algae problem two summers ago, (thank goodness for Ben who helped me out of it!!!) I made sure my ph/alk my levels were all good and raised my chlorine up to about 12ppm.
I had hoped this would rid my pool of its algae....However, it's been several days since then, I've been keeping my CC up to 6, but I'm still having to vacuum up debris daily. (Normally I'm vacuuming to waste unless my son is doing it-he takes too long and I'd be out of water....) I've been adding polyquat weekly. Although, when I first noticed the debris, I added a whole bottle of it....
A little history...
My levels when I opened the pool in June were:
CC 0
ph7.0
alk 80
CYA 0
My ph fell to about 6.8 recently, but I bought Borax and and got it up to 7.2. It did take 3 boxes though, which I found odd. I thought one should've done the trick....I also adjusted my alk (after learning here that this will keep ph more stable) to 110. I've had to re-check my CYA so often after adding stabilizer in small doses (I didn't want it too high) that I ran out of tester for it...Upon last check, though it was at 30. I did add one more 4lb container of stabilzier but haven't been able to test it without my solution....:( However, my chlorine is remaining very stable...
As of this morning my test results are as follows....
CC 6
pH 7.2
Alk 110
CYA 30? I'm assuming since I'm out of chemicals...
Water temp is 80 degrees and my son just finished vacuuming debris again. Unfortunately every day it seems to return! :mad: ...Normally my pool gets virtually nothing in it...No leafy trees, etc nearby....Water looks good, if not slightly cloudy in the deep end...
One small note: I was using the bleach method for 2 years but this year we switched to the tri-chlor 3"tablets....Too many incidents of bleaching out clothing and a hassle to cart around the gallon size jugs....Don't know if that should have any effects or not, just thought I'd mention it...Also, we have a sand filter which we just put new sand into when we opened pool this season.
Does anyone have any suggestions of what could be happening or what else I could do to fix the problem? I'm fresh out of ideas...:)
Thank you in advance for any suggestions!
I had hoped this would rid my pool of its algae....However, it's been several days since then, I've been keeping my CC up to 6, but I'm still having to vacuum up debris daily. (Normally I'm vacuuming to waste unless my son is doing it-he takes too long and I'd be out of water....) I've been adding polyquat weekly. Although, when I first noticed the debris, I added a whole bottle of it....
A little history...
My levels when I opened the pool in June were:
CC 0
ph7.0
alk 80
CYA 0
My ph fell to about 6.8 recently, but I bought Borax and and got it up to 7.2. It did take 3 boxes though, which I found odd. I thought one should've done the trick....I also adjusted my alk (after learning here that this will keep ph more stable) to 110. I've had to re-check my CYA so often after adding stabilizer in small doses (I didn't want it too high) that I ran out of tester for it...Upon last check, though it was at 30. I did add one more 4lb container of stabilzier but haven't been able to test it without my solution....:( However, my chlorine is remaining very stable...
As of this morning my test results are as follows....
CC 6
pH 7.2
Alk 110
CYA 30? I'm assuming since I'm out of chemicals...
Water temp is 80 degrees and my son just finished vacuuming debris again. Unfortunately every day it seems to return! :mad: ...Normally my pool gets virtually nothing in it...No leafy trees, etc nearby....Water looks good, if not slightly cloudy in the deep end...
One small note: I was using the bleach method for 2 years but this year we switched to the tri-chlor 3"tablets....Too many incidents of bleaching out clothing and a hassle to cart around the gallon size jugs....Don't know if that should have any effects or not, just thought I'd mention it...Also, we have a sand filter which we just put new sand into when we opened pool this season.
Does anyone have any suggestions of what could be happening or what else I could do to fix the problem? I'm fresh out of ideas...:)
Thank you in advance for any suggestions!