Pool water is green

[PamCal]

We have shocked- adjusted ph and brushed until our muscles ache but still can not get a blue clear pool. any suggestions?

[Watermom]

We will need more information than that to be able to help. Tell us about your pool --- type, volume, type and size of pump and filter and exactly what all you have put in it, meaning ingredients and not just 'shock.' Do you have a test kit? What kind? Can you give us some current water testing results taken with a drops-based kit?

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[PamCal]

I have put in baking soda, shock-our pump is a hayward sand-we use the drops test kit and up until today our PH was at 7.6-currently it is 7.2. Our chlorine was good yesterday but no chlorine today. Our pool is inground-don't know the exact volume but it measures 30x9 and is 8 ft deep and 4 foot shallow end

[PoolDoc]

1. What drops kit?

2. Get a cheap local OTO / phenol red kit and 12 gallons of PLAIN 8% bleach from Walmart or equiv.

3. Add chlorine in 3 gallon doses each PM, till the green turns gray or brown. Test chlorine beginning the 2nd evening; skip chlorine dose if OTO test result is orange.

4. Stop adding other chemicals unless pH is below 7 or above 8. Only test pH when OTO result is medium yellow or lighter.

[PamCal]

We use the HTC OTO/phenol red kit and our pool is a 30,000 volume pool-(my husband just told me that). I may have gotten that wrong before. Will my water really turn orange?? Thanks for your help
Pam

[Watermom]

Your pool water won't turn orange. He was talking about the test sample!

[PamCal]

We have added the 12 gallons of bleach and our water is still green. We are showing high levels of chlorine and our ph is 7.8. What next?
Thanks-
Pam

[Watermom]

What does "high" chlorine mean? A reading that we really need is CYA. Your needed chlorine levels are dependent on that reading.