Clear/brown slime in pool

[PoolDoc]

'Shock' is usually just 'more chlorine than usual'. That's all! There is a fairly ineffective and sometime irritating non-chlorine oxidizer that's sold as shock, but that's not as common.

Going on vacation in a few day? That leaves you with hardly any options. Do this:

1. Fill out the pool equipment form ASAP => http://pool9.net/pf-equip-form Include as much make & model info as you can.

2. See if you can get an HTH 6-way drops test kit at Walmart ASAP. Some Walmarts have them; some don't. Use this link to check => http://pool9.net/hth-6way

3. Try to get a COMPLETE water test done today. If possible avoid BioGuard stores; if possible pick a store that does NOT use test strips.

4. While you're there, get 2 quarts of polyquat for every 10,000 gallons in your pool => http://pool9.net/polyquat

5. If you are not sure whether your salt system is working well, get a trichlor floater and 5 lbs of trichlor tablets for each 10,000 gallons in your pool.

6. While you are at Walmart, get 10 gallons of PLAIN 8% household bleach and 4 boxes of 20 Mule Team Borax per 10K gallons.

7. Report results and info back here ASAP.

8. Tell me about the slime. Can you touch it? What does it 'feel' like? Can you photograph it? Send FULL size pics to poolforum@gmail.com

9. You're not going to get it in time for vacation, but go ahead and order a K2006. Here's the link for the direct-from-Amazon item: K2006a sold by Amazon
Amazon is playing some shipping / stocking games, so you won't receive it immediately, but since you're leaving that won't matter. It would really help if you already had one.