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    Default Cloudy water is it my filter?

    Hi all, new to the forum.
    I have a 20 x 40 vinyl liner pool, about 30000 gal.
    TC 4
    FC 4
    PH 7.2
    TA 74
    Cal 72
    Copper 0.9
    CYA 0

    I had lots of leaves and dirt in the spring and had to use a lot of chlorine.

    Now that the pool is very clean I'm still dumping 4-5 gal a day of 12% liquid chlorine and by the next night its down to under 2 ppm or 0. I just added a box of Borax to raise PH. Water is cloudy, cant see the bottom of the pool but its clean with no slim in the bottom as I was in it today.

    Seems that my sand filter is not doing the job. I have a 25" Ranger filter with a 2 hp pump on 1.5 " piping. Pump is running 24 hrs a day. I changed my sand last year to a finer sand that a pool guy around here recommends.

    Not sure it works as when I was cleaning with my kreepy krawly in filter mod it would come back brown from the returns. I bought a Dolphin robot cleaner and it cleaned out the pool really clean.
    I don't see any algae but why I'm still using so much chlorine? Wondering if the cloudy water comes from the filter not filtering?
    Last edited by PoolDoc; 06-07-2014 at 03:59 PM. Reason: reformat for clarity

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