green pool: like black/green pool

FC was at 8 last night when i tested, ph was 7.4.
i put in 3 * 1.42gl * 6% bleach (~10pm)
i tested at 6am this morning, and the fc was at 20.
i did not add any chlorine today.
i am going to ask my wife to test this morning. if the fc goes down, then i will ask her to dump more chlorine in there.

if i take a sample out, it is clear, but a little cloudy. to look at the pool, the water is aqua. there is still a little bit of white slightly foaming color on top of the pool. i think this is a result of putting so much bleach in there, and am not tremendously worried.

one other thing regarding the bleach. i bought walmart bleach last night, as opposed to chlorox. any difference to the pool? they both say 6% chlorine. i can go to bjs, and get chlorox for around the same price. it is a bit more work, but if it made a material difference, i would do it.

Some of the clorox bleach has extra stuff in it. Just stick with walmart generic bleach.

no bleach added today

wife tested after lunch.
fc was at 9.5
ph = 7.5

i tested an hour ago
fc = 5
cc = 5
ph = 7-5

water is clean but cloudy.
sounds like i need more bleach.

Yes you do! I hope your numbers are just testing error and you really do not have a CC of 5! Retest again in the morning. Don't know if you'll check this thread tonight, but if you do, you need to shock your pool again.

added 1 * 1.42gl * 6% bleach
tested an hour later.

fc was at 21
cc= 3.5
ph = 7-5
cya = 90
ch = 90

added another bottle after i took the sample
will add another bottle soon.

i would like to have the family swimming safely tomorrow.

is that possible, and what would be the main results that i would have to look for?

tested again at 10:30. about an hour after last addition of bleach:

fc was at 21
cc= 3.5


added another bottle after extracting the test sample.

It is not safe to swim in a pool with a CC reading of 3.5. Sorry. I know that is not what you wanted to hear. Maybe if you can, test it again before going to bed and hit it with more bleach and then test/dose every two hours in the morning. See where you are at that point. Repost in the am and let us see how the numbers are going. Keeping my fingers crossed that you get past this quickly!

tested last night an hout after i added the third bottle of the evening

fc = 22
cc = 3

tested this morning at 6
fc = 28
cc = 2.5

you mention the cc number. so is it fair to say that if the fc number stays high, and the cc comes down it will be ok? if so, what would be an acceptable cc?

regarding my chlorine testing, here are the steps i am using

dip a plastic water bottle into the pool about 18 inches below water level.
put 10 ml into the larger container of the test tubes
add two of those little scoops of the granular item (in the thousands and ends with a 0)
this turns the water red / pink
add the drops from the brown bottle (in the thousands and ends with a 1)
fc ppm = amount of drops to turn the water clear / 2
i then add the other clear bottle (0003, i believe) to turn it red / pink again
add the drops from the brown bottle (in the thousands and ends with a 1)
cc ppm = amount of drops to turn the water clear / 2


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I'm not clear on how you are doing the test.

After you add the two scoops of powder and the sample turns pink, you add drops of R-0871 until it turns colorless. Then you multiply the number of drops by 0.5 for a 10ml sample. This is your FC. (You wrote -- fc ppm = amount of drops to turn the water clear / 2. That is the part that wasn't clear to me about what you meant.)

Then, you add 5 drops of the R-0003 and then add drops of R-0871 one a time until it turns clear. Then, again, you multiply the number of drops by 0.5 for a 10ml sample. This is your CC.

Is this the way you are doing it? What does the / 2 part mean?

Please clarify for me and if you did not perform the test in this manner, try again and repost with corrected numbers.

If the numbers you posted are correct, it looks unlikely that you will be able to swim today. You don't want to swim in water that has a CC reading higher than 0.5 and I also wouldn't swim if the FC was higher than 10ppm. (Even then, you would need to wear old swimsuits that you wouldn't be upset if it faded some.)

/ 2 = dividing by 2 = multiplying by 0.5

i think i am shooting for sunday, now. i will continue to shock today, keep the fc up high.
an other way to decrease the cc? would stabilizer work? if so, is the pool store the only place to get that?