Hi, Wendy,

I think this thread is getting off track. I'll bet if you put enough Clorox in your pool, your water will clear up and you won't have to do a thing to your filter except backwash it.

Now, we can't tell you how much is enough unless you post up some numbers for us. We need FC, CC, pH, Alk, and CYA. If you can't post those, get to Leslies or Walmart or wherever and get a kit that will.
My pool is VERY green right now with a lot of particles floating around. I just put 20 bottles of the small bleach to kill some of the algae and I'm running the filter.
That green is still algae and your filter won't kill it....Clorox will.

If it were my pool, I'd drop all thoughts of my filter and kill the algae in the pool. THEN, your filter will clean your pool.

Skip the algacide....you need Clorox.