Argggghhhh!!!

[no1ford]

ok here are my levels-
ph-6.8
fc-3ppm
alk-120ppm
stabalizer- 0

I have super cloudy water resulting from killing algea and having copper. two week deal-clear up until 2 days ago. told to use floc by pool store-haven't gotten yet. do you think I should leave my filter off for the day and let all dirt fall to bottom to see if pool water clears? Or will leaving the filter off shoot me back another day?

18x 48 intex metal frame pool

[JohnT]

ok here are my levels-
ph-6.8
fc-3ppm
alk-120ppm
stabalizer- 0

I have super cloudy water resulting from killing algea and having copper. two week deal-clear up until 2 days ago. told to use floc by pool store-haven't gotten yet. do you think I should leave my filter off for the day and let all dirt fall to bottom to see if pool water clears? Or will leaving the filter off shoot me back another day?

18x 48 intex metal frame pool

You need to get your pH up. If the cloudiness falls to the bottom, how will you get it out of the pool? Most small pools can't use a real vacuum, and the leaf vacs will just blow it through the bag, so I don't see you having much choice but to leave it running. Maybe even brush it to stir up what has settled.

[no1ford]

ok on ph-will get some ph plus and what about floc-do you recommened it?

[no1ford]

my water looks like blue milk!

[Bleach=Chlorine?]

The low pH will cause cloudiness in the water. You can add borax from grocery store or you can buy pH Up but I would not worry about the floc.

[no1ford]

a lot of cloudiness??

[Watermom]

I think you have gotten sound advice in this thread. You need to shock your pool up to about 15 and try and hold it there as Carl advised above. You also need add some Borax to bring your ph up above 7.0. I also don't understand how you had a stabilizer reading of 30-50 a couple of days ago and now you have none. That doesn't change that fast. At any rate, keep shocking and try not to let your cl level come down. Test several times a day and each time add enough bleach to bring it back up to shock level. Run your pump 24/7.

[no1ford]

Ok-so I went to the pool store and they gave me copper algecide-so we will see

[waterbear]

Ok-so I went to the pool store and they gave me copper algecide-so we will see

a whole new kettle of worms!

Read these pages on the sister website www.poolsolutions.com
http://poolsolutions.com/gd/avoiding_algae.html
http://poolsolutions.com/tips/tip08.html
http://poolsolutions.com/gd/cloudy.html

Hope this info is useful!

[Watermom]

Do NOT use a copper algaecide. You do NOT want copper in your pool. As Waterbear said above, it opens a whole new kettle of worms!