Forum: Dealing with Algae & Slime

please help i have torn my filter apart looking everywhere for hole or tears...manifiold looks intact too with no visible cracks...i have small...

First, thanks for a great resource. With only partial success, I followed the instructions given in a 2006 thread regarding repeated shocking and...

Sis has a 65k inground gunite pool with a pebbletec finish. She has black algae really bad. is there anything that can be done?

I have what I think is mustard algae. Treated the pool with Yellow Out. Put all tools, hoses, etc in pool during treatment. Vacuumed to Waste. ...

Hello, I'm new to the forum. I bought a house with a pool last year. After battling the pool chemistry for a year I enlisted help from a...

My name is Travis. I was looking for answers to problems that have plagued me this season and I decided to join. I'll post more once it becomes...

Hi Everyone: So my pool specs are below. i do not understand how to test my CYA, so if someone could please tell me how to do that iit would be...

Hi, I'm new here and just had an above ground pool installed. It's a 15 foot round, 54" deep. We worked our way up to this - starting with simple...

So we bought a house in December, and there is an above ground pool (~9000 gallons, 21ft across, round) in the back yard. It was blue when we...

I sure wish I had found the Pool Solutions web site in 1997 when I bought a house with a pool (10K gal vinyl)! I have been at the mercy of the pool...

I have only owned a real pool for a year. Have an above ground 24 ft pool. opened it after the winter and found slight green. Now it is cloudy but...

Hi all, I am ready to drain my pool. I came here in hopes someone might have some suggestions. The pool store is even stumped and I refuse to buy...

Just saying hello and getting my required first post out of the way. I have made significant progress on clearing up the 21,000 in-ground swamp that...

Can you tell me if over shocking a pool can make the water slightly slimy?

I'm interested in getting into the pool service business. I'm still a novice though. Ive been practicing on cleaning green pools, and I find the...

Hi. Over the past week or two I've been noticing a gradually increasing amount of algae in my pool, mostly in corners, on ladders, and along the...

I have been fighting black algea for about a year. I just found this forum and have been putting nothing in but bleach for the past 3 weeks,about 20...

Hello All. I am a three year pool owner and I am still struggling to get my pool where it needs to be. I joined this site to see what I could learn...

We have never owned a pool before. We are on our 4th summer with our pool and haven't been in it yet as we have been doing all kinds of repairs. ...

We moved into a new (to us) house in TX this week with a concrete inground pool (~15,000 gal) with sand filter that was built in the mid-80's. We've...

First my numbers for my 24 foot round AG pool This morning: FC 13 CC .5 TC 13.5 PH 7.3 CYA 30 Waited too long and let too much junk get...

I've had my inground pool for about a year now and have been doing pretty well this season but came up with a problem so i went to a local pool...

I've been maintaining an inground 18x36 foot pool ~28000 gallons for 3 years now. Once the pool is opened I have no problems maintaining it, but...

my pool seem to show algae every couple of days n shocking seem to help for a day, the pump pressure seem to build up to a point needing backwash...

Oookay.. Here goes.. About 2 weeks ago I tested the water in my above ground pool. The Ph was low so I added a increaser. As it turns out, my test...

aaaack! I've got two problems. One is "husband-caused" algae (cloudy water, slightly slimy walls and billowy white snotty-looking floaters); the...

10'x36" Entex Pool. PH >9, FC 4, TA 160, CYA 60 after adding 5 oz bleach, 8 oz borax. Added 5 oz bleach, and PH decreaser. There is a green swirl...

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...

This forum absolutely rescued my pool a few years ago & I am forever grateful. Ever since starting the BBB method my pool is sparkling from the first...