White Cloudy Water - Twighlight Zone

[szampino]

Scorecard:

7/28/06 - 1:38pm.

Water is crystal clear.

Stats:

FC: 2-3
PH: 7.0

Added 8(+-) quarts of bleach to the pool to bring it to shock level based on Ben's best guess. I expect to keep adding Chlorine due to the AA treatment earlier. I will get it to shock and maintain overnight.

[szampino]

Scorecard:

7/28/06 - 2:55pm

Water is still crystal clear.

FC - 15 (Shock level)
PH - 6.8

Added about 12oz of Borax to get this up to 7.2

So far......So good BUT: It is beginning to Rain....I can't win...The pool gods hate me. It must be pay-back for all the "urinating in the pool" I did when I was a kid.

[szampino]

Scorecard:

7/28/06 - 3:42pm

Water still crystal clear

PH - 7.0

Added about 10oz of Borax to bring up PH to 7.2.

***Still raining.

[Watermom]

You have gotten some good advice in this thread and appear to be well on your way to keeping it clear for good. This thread is getting pretty long - up to 53 posts I believe. Since I think you have probably gotten the info you need, I'm going to go ahead and lock this one as it is getting a little unmanageable. Congrats on the good work!

PS - Raining here too!

[szampino]

OK.

I thought there might be some benifet to see if the Cloudy Problem re-occurs before closing it out.

Some of the last posts were to drain and begin again.

Your call!

[Watermom]

I'll wait a day or two before I close it. Hopefully the problem is gone for good. Good luck.

[szampino]

scorecard

7/29/06 - 9:00am.

FC- 15
PH- 7.2

Woke up this morning and the water had turned a little "Metally greenish" (yellow/brown against White and Blue vinyl).

Chlorine held overnight so I am assuming that I do not have an algea bloom and this is due to the metals in my water.

I added about 1lb of AA. This should bring my Chlorine down but I haven't checked yet.

As of 12pm - the water is now crystal clear.

Q. Should I bring the water back to shock level or can I get it to swim range about 2pm (due to the metals).

Any and all thoughts welcome.

[szampino]

scorecard:

7/29/06 - 4:30pm.

FC: dropped drastically to about 1ppm
PH: also dropped to about 6.8.

I've added about 2qts of Bleach - Using the guide it looks like 1 gal of 6% bleach should bring 10,000 gal up 5ppm, will wait a little while then add 1lb of Borax.

Will try to get my Chlorine level up to somewhere between 2 -3.

Still not sure if I should bring it to shock?

[szampino]

Scorecard
7/30/06 - 12:20pm

FC - 3
PH - 7.2

I can't believe it but I think I'm done! It was long, painful, but the water is now Crystal Clear!

I need to send a BIG THANK YOU to everyone that helped!

This thread can be closed!