Forum: Dealing with Algae & Slime

Hi Former long time and regular user of the forum. I have a "rough and dusty" deposit on the vinyl walls. Not the typical mustard slimy algae. ...

HI All, I have been trying to get our pool going for several weeks now, and I simply have not been able to get it right. It is still kind of green...

This is a long post! Hopefully I get all pertinent, necessary info to you on the first try. We live in Phoenix, AZ and have a 7 year old Pebble...

I have a in gorund cement pool that holds about 23,000 gals. I use a Jandy DE filter. I took the over off and all the slime, algae and junk aling...

Hi fellow Poolers, newbie here. New to the site and unfamiliar where to post this question but here goes. Just opened the pool today and to my...

Last year I bought my house and with it I adopted a 16x48 above ground pool. The water was in 'ok' shape then, so went ahead and got it ready for...

Ok...it goes like this...i get some green stuff in my pool periodically and it seems that I can vacuum it up but I see it coming back through my...

I just returned from a one-week vacation and have some pea green colored algea on the steps and a few spots where the walls meet the bottom of the...

My pool is super nasty green, my pump went bad and started leaking about a month ago and I was unable to buy a new pump until last week so I need to...

Lately I have noticed there is some blue soapy substance that's attached to the grout lines between tiles. I can scrape most of it off by my finger...

12 thousand gallon inground VL- Algar appears to be growing in corners. PH 8 FC- 2.4 CC-0 TA-50 CH-160 CA-30 THANKS-

I have a 16 X 32 AG with 6 ft deep center area and have an AutoPilot SWG. Chemistry as follows (PS233): CL > 5ppm (OTO only as DPD...

Just a short note to say HI again . No problems opening "again" this year . Good peeps this site . I used 5 bottles of Axis Ultra bleach , and...

Got back from a weeks vaca, and the pool is green, had rain cont. for the week before we went on vaca and while we were on vaca. Before I left...

Please help. Just put in new liner in a pool that has been out of service for serveral years. We are located in the piedmont of the state of...

I just got back from the pool store with a new solar blanket. I happened to mention that my old one only lasted 4 years. After telling the guy that...

I keep getting this black dust. it settles on the bottom but when I vacuum or sweep it it just disappears for a short time then comes back over...

HI all....i was in the midst of the inland hurricane in southern illinois. The cover (most of it ) blew into the pool along with the leaves n gunk on...

If anyone is interested: Ebay has the Applied BioChemist Pooltrine 60 listed for $56.99 per gallon with $6.00 shipping...that's only $15.75 per...

Hello, I have spent over an hour on this forum trying to figure out how to eliminate my mustard algae and don't have a clear answer. I am looking...

This forum has been so great i've been neglecting to check it. It helped me tremendoulsy when I started my pool, and I've used the info to run my...

I was sooooo stupid, lazy or whatever and neglected putting chlorine in my pool a few weeks ago. So when I finally checked it last weekend of course...

Left Thursday the 11th to escape hurricane Ike. Shut down my equipment. 30,000 G white plaster inground. Everything was fine when I left. Chlorine...

This was the 2nd season where the my pool (24'x15'x52" AG) started out clear, then by early July it turned green. I chlorinate with 12.5% sodium...

I recently noticed small black spots on my gunite. And they grow. From what I've read it seems like black algae. They are very tough to brush away...

Help, please. I have been lucky enough to never have an algae problem til now: got that yellow "sand" which seems to brush off but reappears 8-24...

PH 7.6, Chlorine around 3, on a regular basis, using Chlorine Tabs. Water temp is about 90* (Arizona) Run filter 10 hrs every night, sand...

Just bought home with a whoppin big pool with whoppin big problems. I need help with (1) where to begin and (2) how to figure out how much of...

Here is a better picture of what I now think is probably definitely mustard algae: If you see my thread a few posts down, we originally...