Argggghhhh!!!

[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]

I had used two different tests and I now added stabalizer. The chlorine has been up for two weeks at 10plus. I will go tonight and get some ph plus and cross my fingers! How long does it usually take to clear? and really can it get that cloudy from just ph? I can't see a foot down

Thanks

[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!

[no1ford]

too late-now what!!! I think I am going to drain and cry!

[waterbear]

No need to drain. What's done is done. You can live with the copper....or add a metal sequsterant to deactivte it. I personally would live with it. If you shock and the water gets greener it is the copper. You will need to add sequesternt then. A lot of times that doesn't happen. A lot of times it does.
Just keep tabs on it. It will help kill the algae.
If anyone gets green hair from the copper in the pool it is easy to fix....check out this thread!
http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=326

[no1ford]

Oh-thanks you. I was ready to drain!! I am blown away! I added three bottles of iron out and then the same guy gave me copper algecide for the cloudiness! So didn't he just give me my problem back! My blonde one did swim right after I added, but once she got out we washed her hair and it looks ok.