Forum: Dealing with Algae & Slime

I have a friend who is a 2nd year pool owner. It's an above ground 24' 52" high round pool. He opened the pool, vacuumed, ran his robot, dumped in 3...

2nd year pool owner, 1st year opening from winter. Took winter cover off yesterday to find pool in a full algae bloom. Very dark green and cloudy....

Hello all, I used lots of bleach to finally kill the algae, kept sweeping and sweeping. The water is now blue BUT, it's cloudy! Does anyone have any...

My son let his pool get away from him prior to me taking over the "pool duties". He had it well on it's way to clean before I got involved. We...

Before: After: Still very cloudy, can't see through. Used chlorine, levels are high but that's not what I'm worried about. Ph seems...

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...

Can someone help me understand why I would have some yellow algae on the walls but still test acceptable to high chlorine levels? thanks,

I would like to do a bucket test with some floc. Can anyone recommend one?

Hello from Texas. I was once a regestered member years ago. glad to be back! Ready to get this aglae problem tackled!

I am new to this forum and the BBB method and I tend to get lost reading all the threads, it is my new wiki. I currently have a broken leg and am...

I have opened our pool and it had a lot of algea growing it in. The pool is 27,000gals vinyl. I added an initial dose of 20 gals of 12.5% Liq...

Hi y'all, I am a newish pool owner (this is our third summer), and I am trying to become less dependent on my local pool store. Don't get me wrong -...

just took cover off and was wanting to see clear water as usual but it was cloudy and either had dirt or start green algae on bottom could see bottom...

I have a 52,000 gallon pool that came with my house that I bought 6 years ago. I did the store thing as everyone does and found your site while...

I opened my pool yesterday and it is green I am running the filter but not sure what else to do. I have never ever had this issue when opening my...

I have an above-ground pool (27' round). Started to get mustard algae which I've been battling for a couple of months. BUT now the algae has...

Here's some information of my pool * 24,000 gal * concrete with plaster * cartridge filter * 1&1/4 hp pump There are some yellow...

This is my first summer maintaining our home pool and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed already. That being said I'm hoping for some advice on how to...

I am having an especially difficult time with algae this year. I have a 24000 gallon inground vinyl liner, sand filter, 3/4 HP pump. When I took the...

Hi, I have an in ground pool with an automatic pool cover. During the summer I will be on vacation for about 10-12 days and during that time for...

I have a 18 x 36 inground pool, vinyl liner. I have clear water but have dark algae ( I think) on the bottom of pool and along some of the liner...

I'm new here, so I'm not sure if its preferred every subject gets a new thread, or if I have a similar issue if I post within someone else thread? ...

OK I am so tired of my pool I could literally weep right now. We have had this pool for about 5 years but this year seems extremely difficult for...

Pool: 33' Round Opened: Spring Break Currently: FC -5 pH: 7.4 TA: 90 CYA: 40 After opening the pool, I did well with BBB. Water cleared...

I have a 35,000 gal gunnite pool and upon opening the pool, the water was really green. After a week or so of trying to clear it up, my pump died and...

We're just getting our pool opened for the year and we had a lot of algae in the bottom of the pool. We used Aquachem and it's showing all levels are...

I think I may be dealing with mustard algae but it's confusing me since my cc level remains negligable. I'm getting a yellow blotchy dust coating on...

I'm losing the battle with algae this spring. I've followed the forums advice and have had my chlorine levels high for days, but algae lives on. My...