Hello all,

This is my first post. Stumbled across your guys' website and found a lot of helpful info so I decided to join. I figured this board could help me break my dependance on expensive Pool store chemicals.

Anyhow, a little about my pool. I have a 54" deep, 28' round , 18,000 gallon above ground pool. I use the Pool frog Sanitizer/ Chlorine Backpack system with a Cartridge filter. I have added two bottles of Pool frog "bam" algecide that is suppose to last for 3 months at the opening of the pool. I use a weekly non clorinated shock, 1 bag per 10,000 gallons.I usually keep the solar cover on when we are not swimming, but have had it off since the weather has been real hot. We heat the pool with a 4'x20' Fafco solar panel. I take my water to the pool store once every couple of weeks to have it tested and have a basic drop tester that only shows PH and Chlorine.


Two weeks, ago I notice a white "stringy, snotty" substance that was around the skimmer and pool ladder. I also had what looked like piles of dust bunnies on the bottom of the pool clumped together. There was also pink slime on some of the white, snotty, strings.

After some research, I realized what I had was White water fungus. I went to the pool store and they prompted me to use 3 bags of Clorinated shock the first night, followed by a phosphate remover the next night, 24 hrs later sweep the pool to waste, and then add Aqua Doctor, a natural enzyme that helps control pink slime,breaks down oils,water lines,etc. I scrubed the walls,skimmer,etc. and also took out the ladder and the sand bags that held it down and scrubbed everything with the Aqua doctor as directed.This seem to get rid of the pink slime, but I still have the fungus and it seems to be increasing.

My questions:

1. What type of testing kit should I purchase?
2. Will using a chlorinated shock, or bleach, get rid of the White water fungus?

Thanks for the help!!!