Cloudy water with pale green hue

[PoolDoc]

Chlorine level is probably good -- it's in the 15 - 30 ppm range.

+ Lower your pH level to around 7.4. (Muriatic acid page linked in my signature!)

+ Get a good test kit! In particular, we need to know your stabilizer level.

+ Here are links to the kits we recommend:

HTH 6-Way Test Kit @ Walmart
Taylor K2006A (3/4 oz bottles) @ Amazon
Taylor K2006C (2 oz bottles) @ Amazon

+ Send a picture of your POOL. Sometimes the color tells us what the problem is.

[NorthEast]

Thanks for posting the pic, PoolDoc. All the bleach is working. I've been adding 2 gallons of generic 6% bleach in the morning and again once the sun goes down...so 4 a day. Three days and the improvement is remarkable. Water is clear, but not 100% yet. I backwash the filter twice a day and it's gone from completely green to almost nothing there. My issue now is getting the dead algae off the bottom. I vacuum, but it's stubborn. I've tried with the automatic (lil shark) and manual vac, but it's not working. Any suggestions? I'm going to continue with the bleach, scrubbing and backwashng.