CYA levels

[Watermom]

There is no way to predict that. See if you are losing chlorine overnight. Test it this evening after the sun is off the pool and then again in the morning within one hour of sunrise. Report back and tell us how much chlorine you lose overnight.

Two questions for you:
1. What was the source of your fill water?
2. Check the ingredients on the trichlor tabs you used. Does it list copper as ingredient?

[dubbedout]

I added another gallon of bleach after testing, will test again to see how high CL went up. My fill water is city water, it's on an automatic fill system. Right now the pool doesn't look as green as before, now just really cloudy. I've got a skimmer sock and I'm cleaning it twice a day as it's turning pretty green throughout the day, also have some scum balls that I'm having to clean daily as well. I also brushed the walls today as well.

As far as the prior chlorine I was using its Leslie's 3" Jumbo tabs. The label only says "Sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione dihydrate 99%, Other ingredients 1%" So i'm not sure what the "Other ingredients" are. The trichlor was Leslie's Chlor-Brite and the label says "Trichloro-s-triazinetrione 99%, Other ingredients 1%". I discontinued use of both of those when I switched to bleach.

[dubbedout]

Ok, tested last night and early this am and had no change in chlorine. CL was at 21ppm at 8pm and just tested at 645am and was still at 21ppm. Water still very cloudy. pH is 7.6.

[Watermom]

Does it still look greenish or just cloudy now?

[dubbedout]

Each day it's looked a little less green..Today I would say its just really cloudy. The pump has been running 24/7 since Sunday. The scum balls and skimmer sock are still turning green, cleaning both about twice daily.

[Watermom]

Ok. Keep the pump running 24/7 and backwash any time the pressure rises 8-10 psi over your clean filter pressure.

[dubbedout]

I just want to say THANK YOU! If it weren't for this forum theres no telling how bad this could have gotten and how much $$ I probably would have spent at the pool store trying to fix it. All it took was a good shock with the bleach! I'm still cleaning the scum balls and the skimmer sock as their still turning green but the water is 100% better already.

I wish I would have taken a before shot, but here's the pool as it sits right now.