I have a few questions...

[ilovetarts]

Thanks for the responses. It's too bad I checked this AFTER I applied Yellow Out today! We did scoop out as many pollywogs as we could. Yes, it is funner to say Pollywogs. My pool wall is 52". I added 2 pounds of Yellow Out, 4 bottles of 182 oz. store brand bleach and about 3 pounds of cyanuric acid. The chemicals did kill the remaining pollywogs. There were at least a couple hundred dead; which I did remove through the skimmer and with the skimmer net. We will keep the living ones in a kiddie pool until they're big enough to leave on their own. I only have cheap test strips. I was guessing on the amounts to put in. I know I didn't have any chlorine in the pool. And I figured the cyanuric acid was low. I do have a quart bottle of polyquat 60. Should I put that in now? The water has turned to a nice cloudy blue. I haven't been able to vacuum the pool yet because I can't see the bottom.

Janet, the reason I'm switching to Zeosand is because I read a lot of positive reviews on it. I heard it filters better than sand. I just hope we backwash it good enough so it doesn't cloud up the pool.

I will follow your guys advice and purchase a quality pool water test kit. If you have any more advice, I'd appreciate it!

Thanks!

Jeannie

[aylad]

When you fill the filter, whether it's sand or zeo, but ESPECIALLY if it's zeo, make sure that you start it up in backwash or rinse mode. Otherwise you'll stand there and watch your nice, clean, sparkling pool become a mud pit right before your very eyes--and it takes several days to clean up the mess. Let me know if you actually see a difference with zeo--I didn't...

You need to keep the chlorine levels up in your pool at least at 12-15 ppm, until all the ammonia from the Yellow Out is gone, and until all the algae is dead. If you let it come back down now, you're in for more algae before you ever get the cloudiness cleared up from the last time.

Janet