Quote Originally Posted by gogolion View Post
One more question... so far I've just been brushing, hoping the skimer and drain would pick up the debris and it would get filtered out. Would I be better off vacuuming? The problem there is that it is so time consuming. Brushing is pretty quick and easy.
I wouldn't bother with vacuuming, then, till the algae is ALL dead, AND the filter has been checked. If you vacuum with a filter that's not working well, you can end up just pumping all the algae back into the pool.