Eco-system (aka Swamp!) living in my pool...

[PoolDoc]

Oh, yeah. Membership upgraded.

[The Boyd Family]

Thank you SO SO SO much for all of the advise from WaterMom and PoolDoc!!! We have been cleaning algae and various water insects out of our pool for 5 days now and are getting to where our pool almost looks like a pool! Unfortunately we did use powder shock from the pool store along with Pool First Aid by Natural Chemistry thanks to the people at the local pool stores which actually did help to get it a little clearer, but I do not know what harm it can cause now that I have had more advice on here. We have been running our filter for what seems like days with very little breaks and it is getting clearer and there is less algae due to our using the net with the leaf bag attachment. So all we will really need is bleach (8.25% plain), to get rid of this algae? I am excited about the BBB method but have just began reading about it and am trying to convince my husband to get us a SWCG so we wont have to lug as many bleach jugs around. I am excited to not use all of the crap my local pool stores keep suggesting that we put in.

[Watermom]

am trying to convince my husband to get us a SWCG so we wont have to lug as many bleach jugs around.

SWCGs definitely make pool maintenance convenient but........... you can't use one to clean up a swamp. (Or it will greatly decrease your cell life.) You would still have to supplement with hand dosing of chlorine while you have a green pool.

Good luck!