Also have cloudy water (with a story)

[mbar]

I'm so glad yor pool is clearing up - the best advice I could give you is to invest in a good test kit (the one sold on this site is great) this way you can take care of your pool yourself. You will save a lot of money, and your pool will be easy to maintain. When you have time, you can go on the "Pool Soutions" page and read up on pool tips. You can also find answers to many questions on this forum. here is a link to the kit that is sold here, the one most of us use:

http://www.poolsolutions.com/cart/kits.php

[Justardnck]

*UPDATE*

The pool has been clear for a few days now inspite of all the rain whe have had. I have been testing the water daily and have been keeping the clorine levels and PH levels right but the Alkaline is still 280 PPM I have been aerating the pool with a fountain pump (which we actually like the sound of... or so I've been told)

Any ideas or is this just gonna take time to heal?


*edit* I also added 1 cup of acid today due to what my "acid Demand" test requested

[KurtV]

What levels are you keeping your chlorine and pH at?

[Justardnck]

What levels are you keeping your chlorine and pH at?

Todays numbers are

CL 1.5
PH 7.6
TA 220

[KurtV]

According to Ben's alkalinity lowering procedures, you need to keep the pH at or below 7.2 while you're aerating. Aerating at your current pH of 7.6 probably isn't going to do much for you.

[mbar]

Your chlorine is still way too low, with a cya of 50 - 100 you need to bring it up to at least 10 ppms. If you want to keep it at shock to kill any remaining algae you have to bring it up to 20. This is "Ben's best guess chart

Stabilizer . . . . . . Min. FC . . . . Max FC . . . 'Shock' FC
=> 0 ppm . . . . . . . 1 ppm . . . . . 3 ppm . . . . 10 ppm
=> 10 - 20 ppm . . . . 2 ppm . . . . . 5 ppm . . . . 12 ppm
=> 30 - 50 ppm . . . . 3 ppm . . . . . 6 ppm . . . . 15 ppm
=> 60 - 90 ppm . . . . 5 ppm . . . . . 10 ppm . . .. 20 ppm
=> 100 - 200 ppm . . . 8 ppm . . . . . 15 ppm . . .. 25 ppm

You will continue to have problems with algae if your don't keep your chlorine levels high enough for the amount of cya in your water.