We have shocked- adjusted ph and brushed until our muscles ache but still can not get a blue clear pool. any suggestions?
Pool water is green
We have shocked- adjusted ph and brushed until our muscles ache but still can not get a blue clear pool. any suggestions?
Re: Pool water is green
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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Re: Pool water is green
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
Last edited by PoolDoc; 05-22-2014 at 07:39 PM.
In ground -vinyl -sand filter-skimmer tabs 30,000 gal and is 16 ft wide 36 ft long
Re: Pool water is green
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.
Last edited by PoolDoc; 05-23-2014 at 08:08 AM. Reason: result = OTO test result
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Re: Pool water is green
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
In ground -vinyl -sand filter-skimmer tabs 30,000 gal and is 16 ft wide 36 ft long
Re: Pool water is green
Your pool water won't turn orange. He was talking about the test sample!
Re: Pool water is green
Oh my gosh!! I am really not that crazy!! lol But I did read that wrong -thank goodness! But am I reading it right that the water will turn gray or brown??
In ground -vinyl -sand filter-skimmer tabs 30,000 gal and is 16 ft wide 36 ft long
Re: Pool water is green
Dead algae may be bluish gray or brownish before the filter removes it.
Re: Pool water is green
The pool dimensions on my profile are wrong. How do I change this? --(9x30 inground pool ~10 gal, sand filter, skimmer tabs)~~ Our pool is 30,000 gal and is 16 ft wide 36 ft long.
In ground -vinyl -sand filter-skimmer tabs 30,000 gal and is 16 ft wide 36 ft long
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