I have extremely high phosphates and cannot get rid of them. I have tried every product my pool store offers (Phos-Free, PhosFloc and now one other one) and none have lowered my Phosphate level at all. The phosphates do drop to the bottom of the pool but I've tried having my robot vacuum them up and also vacuuming on waste and neither did the trick.

This has been going on all season and now it's mid-July. I've managed to keep the pool crystal clear all year but am really starting to get hit with bad algae. The biggest problem is that I can't get a chlorine reading b/c the Phophates are apparently taking the chlorine.

Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts besides using one of the above Phosphate removal products? I'm literally out of options and don't know what else to do.