Cloudy water with a green tint?

[Watermom]

I'm sorry that you are unhappy with the responses you are getting at Pool Forum. We have been a little shorthanded this week since the forum owner, PoolDoc (Ben) lost his father last week when he passed away unexpectedly. You only registered yesterday and got a reply the same day. At any rate, I hope you are more successful finding what you need at TFP. Good luck.

[Tobeshoreknot]

My First post was June 30th. I didn't mean that to sound as "whiny" as it did, I just would love to be able to take full advantage of the knowledge here but can't as browsing without being logged in is beyond frustrating but I have to do so to see anything and even still I can't reply or ask for help in a thread that applies to my issue. I am sorry to hear about his loss.

[Watermom]

You are right. I just checked and you registered on June 29. My bad. I'm sorry it is taking so long. I totally understand your frustration.

[PoolDoc]

. . . membership upgraded.

Several quick points:

1. Clearing cloudy water on soft-side pools is SLOW and DIFFICULT. With our help it can be a little quicker and a little easier, but it will NOT be either QUICK or EASY.

2. The EASY way to clear a soft-side pool is to drain and refill. You should compare costs for the water (4,000 gallons in your case) versus the time and chemicals otherwise needed.

3. Once you refill, if you follow the "Super Simple Recipe" you have a better chance of avoiding problems. Replacing the OEM cartridges with the Unicel cartridges linked there, will help significantly too. http://pool9.net/ssr/

4. The LONG TERM solution is to either AVOID problems, by careful consistent pool care OR to get a much larger pump and filter.

5. The SSR (S. S. Recipe) is a SHORT TERM method, and works 2 - 3 months, max. After that, you must drain, refill and start over OR go ahead an use standard BBB methods. You *still* eventually need the K2006 testkit. http://pool9.net/tk/