Lime Green Pool Water

Yes, I see that she only added 20 lbs of calcium - that would not have raised her calcium level that much - my mistake! amyches8179 can you check your calcium level again? Your Cya levels may be off too. Maybe if you can get your water tested at a pool store that does not use test strips. If you want to take control of your own pool you will want to get yourself a good test kit - this way you are not dependent on anyone else, and your results will be consistent. It is hard for anyone here to give you explicit advice when we are not sure of the chemical levels in the water.

Current readings on my pool:

CYA (Stabilizer) 43
Chlorine 4.1
PH 7.2
Alkalinity 151
Hardness 264


Yesterday I added one quart of bioguard scale inhibitor to the pool because the pool store owner thought is was scale instead of metals but of course nothing changed. I went back today and insisted on purchasing 1 quart of bioguard pool magnet plus and the pool is again starting to turn blue...yeah. Last time at the 24 hour mark the water started to turn green....was that because the chlorine levels dropped? Should I just try to keep the levels stable now for a few days and continue to run the pump??? I am so worried it will turn back green again. What is your advice on when to clean it, shock it and anything else that might be helpful. Thanks

Amy,
I'm going to let Ben continue to advise you. I am only going to add that it is usually best to either follow the advice given to you here on the forum or that given by a pool store. When you do some of 'ours' and some of 'theirs' it doesn't usually work too well.

Amy,

You're going to need to get a K2006 or K2006C for me to continue helping you . . . AND you're going to have to stay out of that pool store. They are not only selling you products you don't need, they are giving you bogus test results: there are NO dealer test systems that would allow them to distinguish Alk=151 from Alk=160, much less from Alk=155. Those systems usually are based on electronic readers of 'goofy strips' -- but the strips themselves can't reliably measure Alk well, much less CYA.

Meanwhile, run your pump / filter 24/7 and add small doses of bleach to maintain your chlorine levels.