If water is cheap for you, dump it and refill. Cleaning up algae in the small Intex pools is a TOTAL pain. (And, next time it rains, remember to chlorinate even though it's raining!)

If water is not cheap, you'll have to clean up. For starters, turn your pump on and leave it on. Plain on cleaning your cartridge daily. If you've got some what to chlorinate do so. Then, tonight put 1/2 gallon of PLAIN 6% household bleach in the pool this evening. Once you start with the bleach, stop adding everything else.

Today, while you are at Walmart getting the bleach, get a cheap OTO / phenol red drops test kit. Use it to test the pool tomorrow evening before you add the bleach again, and 1 hour after you add it. Then test it again the morning after second morning. When the chlorine level 1 hour after adding bleach is the same as the chlorine level in the morning early -- everything is as dead as you're going to get it.

That will get you started.

Meanwhile, tell us what test kit you have, how you've been chlorinating, and anything else you think we might need to know to give you a 'recipe' to follow so this doesn't happen again.


(9) boxes of borax; (2) gallons muriatic acid