I've been fighting an algae bloom and now I'm struggling to clear up the cloudy water. I've been maintaining shock levels for a week and a half and still brushing and vacuuming and backwashing. Water looks clear, but still not sparkling. My water turned blue several days ago and has looked blue but cloudy since Saturday. I can see the bottom, just a little cloudier on the deep end. Each morning I go out to run tests, backwash, scrub and vacuum, then add bleach. Today it didn't need bleach - the Cl reading stayed the same from last night. I have been finding minimal amounts of algae lying on the floor, mainly along the wrinkles of the liner. Just a couple of "quarter sized" dots in other places.

My numbers are:

(was using Ben's FAS-DPD Test, but used it all during the algae - I've ordered a replacement bottle of #2 and the power)

Cl 40
FC (was at 0 each time I tested, before I used all the #2.)
pH 8.2+ (I'm not trusting this number because of the high Cl level)
Alk unreadable due to high Cl - stoppped trying after 40 drops
CYA read as 45 (BUT prior to my algae attack it was 130 - my reading and the pool stores reading. I've been draining about 4 inches of my pool each time I vacuum to waste and refilling, (at least once daily) plus my water evaporates here too. Could this have really affected my CYA levels that much?)

We really want to swim soon. We've had this pool about 3 weeks now and we've only been in it 3 times. My husband is off for a couple of days and the kids are ready to swim too. We are wanting to enjoy the rewards of all that hard work fighting the algae.