Tale of my battles with cloudy water! I'm finally winning...

After doing a stain treatment, the water often goes cloudy, and you have to start to raise the chlorine the next day, and keep putting chlorine in because the stain treatment eats up the chlorine, which will then leave you open to an algae outbreak. That said, nothing seems to work better than lots of bleach to clear up a cloudy pool - I realize many people are afraid to put a lot of bleach in the water - but it really does break down and kill everything in the water that shouldn't be there. I have also found that after doing a stain treatment the best way to add chlorine is with bleach - cal hypo seems to encourage staining. It is also easier to raise the chlorine level slowly with the bleach. This is a very interesting post - thank you for taking the time to share with us, I'm sure it will help others to see how the consistant high chlorine levels cleared up the water.