Forum: Dealing with Algae & Slime

We have moved into our house that has a pool - the previous owners were only using bleach pucks and only tested the water at the beginning of each...

Hey, I have been keeping my chlorine at 15 ppm as much as I possibly could all week since getting back home on Saturday. I want to add another...

I was out of town for 2 weeks and my skimmer must have went dry. I had to replace my booster pump for the polaris but my main pump is fine. Anyway,...

Another newbie here with cloudy water after a horrible algae bloom... Prior to finding this site, I have been following pool store directives (I...

We have an above ground small pool (15 ft diameter, 36 inches deep). For the past week we had been dealing with dark brown water and alot of debris...

Hi Everyone, I recently moved into a new home and inherited the ig pool. So this is my first time dealing with opening the pool. I have read a...

I was attacked by mustard algae.I have tried everything the Pool Store told me to do,but nothing seems to help. I have added Algecide with cooper to...

*sigh*....a few weeks ago I tried treating this problem i am having with Sodium Bromide...and I thought I had it cleared up. This may or not even BE...

Since so many of you have tried to help me with my green pool problem, I wanted to share my success with you to say thank you and hopefully to help...

I hope you don't mind me combining two questions in one post.(I'm new). First I read this post http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=1648...

After you shock your pool, has all of the polyquat been removed? i.e. do you need to add a starter dose of polyquat again? Hal

I just opened my pool Monday and am bleaching and it is improving but Im thinking of flocking to speed up the process. Will that kill all my...

This is my first time writing, but I've been reading for the past year since we had our pool put in a year ago. Everyone is so helpful and I have...

Hello! I am a fairly new pool owner of an Inground 28,000 gallon vinyl lined pool. We recently opened it, shocked with liquid chlorine and are...

First post but here goes. Water test results: Cl - 5+ probably closer to 8-9 as I just shocked PH - 7.2 TA - 110 TH - 280 CYA - 30 but...

For those of you who use polyquat as a preventative measure...what dosage do you add to your pool and when? I have an 8000 gallon A/G pool.

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...

Hi all, I opened my pool last month (Gunite, 25,000 gallons) and fortunately found this forum before I added any pool store chemicals - (I've had a...

Ok, I got some Algicide 60%, non foaming at Home Depot today. It was under $17.00, so better than pool store prices, but much higher than Leslie's...

Can someone tell me why I got so much more green gunk algae this year when 1) I dumped the recommended (by Ben) amount of Polyquat in the pool last...

Moved into a new home that has a pool we opened week ago Friday. Water was pretty clear we were impressed. We did nothing to it but gather the...

Hi Everyone, I've been reading the plight of others with algae this spring and I'm among `em. I haven't done the chems yet because I don't know...

I have been fighting algae for two weeks now. I have done some of the tips I have learned here. What I am noticing is that when I vacuum the blue...

I've been reading this forum for a couple of years and "participating" for several months now...you'd think I'd know better, BUT...I got lazy. We...