slimy, gelatinous strings of goo ruin a good dip.........

[PoolDoc]

Can you take pictures of this, and send them to me at poolforum@gmail.com? Or post them on Picasa or Photobucket or something? You are describing something I've never seen.

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Your pool holds about 13,500 gallons, so your PF=9, so a gallon of bleach will add about 4.5 ppm of chlorine. You might want to add 3 gallons of bleach (~15 ppm) in the late evening, rather than splitting it up. That way, all the bleach will be able to work on the 'goo', instead of losing some of it to sunlight.