We've been studying the pool forum for suggestions on our problem. We have 24' round above ground pool in Ohio. Our pool was clear for a few weeks this summer after opening, and then it turned green. It's hard to believe it was an algae bloom since I am never without chlorine pucks in the skimmer, but maybe it was. We had to add water due to a drought in our area, and since we are on well water that is orange with Fe, perhaps the green color was really orange against the blue pool liner?

In any event, after studying the forum, we think our cyanuric acid was too high anyway (making the Cl ineffective?) - before we didn't realize high stabilizer was a bad thing, but now we know better. We drained the pool 3/4 and refilled. We are on that orange well water though, and so our pool is "green"...or maybe orange with a blue liner backdrop...still. We have a white ladder and the water just looks filled with suspended particles that are orange/green. The first few inches from the top are about all that is see-through.

We were using test strips and just pH/Cl drops. We have invested in a Taylor titration test kit recommended on your forum, via Amazon and are anxiously awaiting its arrival. Meanwhile, we are looking at an orange/green pool. Our stabilizer looks about 100 ppm now, or maybe less (color strips are near worthless). Our chlorine remains very high - at least 10 ppm (the highest on the scale). The pH looks around 7.2. We are running the pump on high 24/7, changing our filter every morning and night (we have two filters - we clean the one while the other is in use - we even soaked them in electric dishwasher soap as someone suggested on the forum, to be sure they were clean). But after three days, this seems like an exercise in futility. Our water temperature has been cold since it was mostly fresh well water (below 70 deg). But the past two days it has been above 70 degrees. (We are having 90 plus deg weather - the kind you REALLY want to be using the pool in. But we read a comment about how a dead body could be in that water and you wouldn't know it...and now everyone is squeemish about using the pool We want to drop the Cl level, but we're afraid to go too low with the 100 ppm cyanuric acid possibility, and risk an algae bloom.

I had some "First Aid" and some "Metal Free" which have worked beautifully in the past to clear the water (hard to believe we've had a pool for 5 years I know...just lucky I guess on keeping it clear this long). Neither of these have appeared to make any difference in the appearance of the water this time around.

Any suggestions while we wait for our Taylor test kit?