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_____________________________________ Algae . . . or something else? Recognizing & treating pool algae successfully. this post . ] ...
Mustard algae tends to be very chlorine resistant, and tends to reoccur. Most algaecides are ineffective against it. There are several options, but...
____________________________________ FAQs & Guides: Dealing with Algae Algae . . . or something else? Recognizing & treating pool algae...
Hi, I wrote this once but think I goofed and it never got sent. I am under a full algae attack. I have been with this pool for almost 10 years...
Thanks to help from Poolmom and several others I now have sparkling blue water again. Repeated bleach shock treatment along with getting my ph up to...
"Cowardly, cowardly Custard... Can't cut the mustard!" Well, it's time to divert my previous thread:...
-gallons: 24000 -in ground plaster -fc=23ppm -cc=1ppm -cya=45-50 -ph=7.2-7.6 sanitizer used=all clear 1pnd packets, 2 per night-supposed to...
I thought I had maintained my chlorine levels during the winter but when I finally pulled both the net and cover off I was greeted with a dark green...
salt water pool 18x36 - cover all winter - after opening it pump died and pool sat open for a week with out water moving - had major green algea. ...
Hi guys, this is my 1st year with a loop-loc mesh cover. Upon opening my pool yesterday I found that my water was black. This is quite a unique...
Howdy... Got a persistent algae problem I think. I have a 33000 gal in 20x40 vinyl liner pool (IG). I just got the 2006 taylor test kit...(Bad...
OK! Here we go. I've battled this algae long enough!:mad: I poured 4 gals of 6% bleach in my 10,000 gal. pool. With a CYA level of 40PPM my...
First I'm a new pool owner. I had the same slipperiness problem now I have spots of darker algae I guess. Can I do the same? I have a 27,000 IGL pool.
I hope. I've attempted to post this twice before...hopefully this time I'll have appeased the forum gods well enough to at least get this thread to...
Branch fell through my cover last winter. Opened up to a black pool. Shocked heavily with liquid shock and dredged up all the leaves I could. Have...
Forgive preese, if this question has already been raised. "Algaecide 60" seems to be trade name for what the Forum refers to as POLYQUAT, the...
We have a 10,000 AG pool. We were going to sell it this year and free up our lives a bit, but our daughter wanted to keep it...so here we are...
A coworker just bought a HUD house, hasn't closed on it yet. She doesn't know the size. I told her if she would measure the length, width and depth...
My pool has been leaking. After 5 weeks of haphazard experimentation we had a breakthrough yesterday. All the light had to be just right, but we...
I thought I'd post some photos of my green pool in the hopes that seeing it might shed some light on my situation. The photos dated 5-23-06 is where...
I would like to make my first post be a THANK YOU to all the mods on this forum, watermom, waterbear, aylad, poconos and also to mwsmith2 for his...
Coral Seas couldn't find a way to transport the chemicals in this process. They were too volatile when combined. They evaluated it for three weeks...
I have a 24' round, above ground pool and for the past week it's been a deep, olive-colored green. I just have the Aqua Chem test kit that measures...
22' diameter, 52" Intex, with a 1 hp pump and 24" sand filter and over $100 in chlorine and its still green. Chlorine level has been 20+ ppm for...
My neighbor asked me if our pool was all green when we open it this year, ours was not and the kids have been in it a few times already. There pool...
I have a 26,500 gal I ground pool. It was cloudy so I went and had the water tested. I came home with a box full of chemicals and 2 pages of...
does adding an algaecide to your pool help keep alge down or does is truly help kill your chlorine?
------------ IMPORTANT: BORAX WILL *NOT* ELIMINATE ALGAE ---------- ----------------------------- It just makes it easier to control....
Is it possible to dissolve stabilizer too fast? I put 7 lbs in two socks and had the kids "play with them" in front of the skimmers. It was all...
Hi, I have an inground pool with SWG and vinyl liner. Since I live in Alabama, we don't really close our pool over the winter. We actually were...
Hi guys: I think I'm on the right track but would like some advice on getting rid of the green. :) Concrete/plaster Approx. 23,000 gallons DE...
I have an above ground 24ft round pool and this year has been horrible! Over the past 2 weeks I have dumped over $180 worth of chemicals in the pool...
First off, praise to this site. I've recently purchased a house with an pool, and had ABSOLUTELY no idea what to do with a pool (other than jump in...
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