Forum: Dealing with Algae & Slime

Hi All, We have a 3 year old 22K gallon salt water gunite pool and although the water is clear, there appears to be blackish/green algae present....

Ive been continously adding 12.5% bleach and brushing the pool to get the water color from a dark green to a cloudy blue and can see some of the...

I am usually pretty good at resolving my pool issues but this year I am stuck. AG Pool opened early due to warm weather. It was green so I treated...

We didn't take our pool down over the winter,but we kept it covered. When we removed the cover we had clear water but also had heavy algae on the...

Hello all, I have a 15,000 gallon in ground pool that I opened 3 weeks ago. Holy swamp!!! I have been a longterm lurker at this forum (as in...

Just as it says, 8.0 cl 7.5 ph 55 cy. I just got the green to go away and am vacing like a mad man. Could I please please use a flocculent. ...

Hi all, I have severe algae issues. I have relied on my local pool store and I've neglected it over the winter, and as a result, the algae is out...

Hi all. Now that I've taken care of my filter problem, I have to deal with the constant yellow algae that is in my pool. A lot of it is "stuck on",...

This will be my first full season on the BBB method. I have an above ground 24 ft diameter circular, 4-ft deep pool with a sand filter. I started...

Hello! We are in the process of opening our pool. We drained it completely and cleaned out the leaves (because we did not cover it when we closed...

Hey I have a 20,000 gallon in-ground pool and it is pretty cloudy.It was green about 2 weeks ago but then we added chlorine and chlorine tablets and...

I am new to the forum but was a subscriber years ago when I first had my pool installed. Currently my issue is green water. I read the post about...

I've been trying to get rid of some yellow algae on the side walls of my pool for about a week now. I first got some HTH Super Algae Guard from...

I opened my pool this year and had a lot of green build up, I have killed everything and the water is now balanced. The problem is that the water is...

Hello, I'm currently trying to get rid of an algae problem in my 24ft above ground vinyl pool with a cartridge filter system. We had a leak in the...

I have been reading the previous posts about algae (which we cannot get rid of this summer and last summer)... I have spent so much $$$ on pool...

My husband and I have been trying to open our pool and it's been so frustrating. We got the water to a light green color and it wasn't very cloudy...

Recently finished up a 13 month tour in Afghanistan, all was well until I got home and found out there was a different war to finght, the war on...

I have a salt-water chlorinating pool and it's a swamp. It's about 25,000 gallons, I think. I'm very encouraged by the photos and results others...

I'm hoping Aylad may pick up on this thread since she lives in the same climate I do (I'm in SETX) and I keep my levels at the same she does...I'm...

Ok, first off this may have been answered already but I'm not sure so Ill ask anyway. I realize its a little early but due to my wife hosting Bunco...

i closed my pool last labor day clear. Ive been out there over the winter and have checked the water sevaral times. I have a mesh saftey cover on the...

So we recently purchased this house with a pool and there is a PVC pipe directed straight up uncovered towards the sky. Took a look today and it was...

Hello, I came here because I have had the worst luck maintaining my pool. I will shock it, and add chlorine, yet I still have problems with the water...

Greetings, just bought a foreclosure house, with beautiful new gunite pool. Except pool was covered in 1/4" thick RED algae. It's my first pool and...

Hi, I have a pebble tech 10K gallon pool. Located in southern california. I took a water sample into a local pool supply and here are the...

Hi, new member. 17000 gal. plaster pool. FC: 12 to 20 PH: 7.8 TA: 90 ...

Hey PoolForum, let me first say that I've been trying to research this as much as I possibly can and have taken a liking to poolsolutions for my...