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[raptureready1953]

Ok this beats all I ever saw. If I did the distilled water / pool water right, it came out to 25> Does that sound right? Also, my ph was way below norm levels . I did that with just the pool water. NOW WHAT ??? Oh my... I never in my lifetime......................

[Simmons99]

Did you dilute the sample for the PH? Dilution only works for the chlorine. Did you add acid? Did you get a lot of acid rain - PH usually doesn't bounce from one extreme to another.

Cloudy usually means that it needs to be filtered - however without complete test results we cannot be positive.

Is the chlorine level holding overnight? If so - then you have killed all the algae.

[raptureready1953]

Ph Is high. Still, yes I added PH Decreaser. Chlorine is holding. It is still 25 this morn. But pool is still cloudy. I do not understand it at all. Pump is running good ... (I tested ph with strip, threw strip away and used my 5 way tester). Would it be ok to dump only half the water and refill ? I hate to do that but I do not know what else to do. Would CYA make pool cloudy? I dont have a skimmer, and had to putit in a coffee filter inside the puck holder. (floater). I wish I had my husbands camera at home I would take a pic. Thanks so much for the help.

[raptureready1953]

went and tested cya again. Its about 25... was 30 last wk. Chlorine is still way up there. Pool still cloudy. We decided to empty some of the water and refill. Hope this works. Looks so pretty blue, but so milky. REREAD why pools can get cloudy. Well it cant be algea then if my chlorine level is holding, right? So I give up. must be the ph balance is out of whack. Going to refill a little more than 1/4 of the pool then start over.

[Simmons99]

You can try the refill - it could be a high calcium level - but it's hard to tell without test results.

PLEASE remember that the PH test is not accurate (drops or strips) above like 10-15ppm of chlorine - it will give you a false high reading. Best NOT to adjust PH when your chlorine levels are high.

[raptureready1953]

Water hardness is 50. I dumped about 1/4 of the pool water out and noticed brown stuff on the bottom in places. I vaccumed it up and refilling now. Will retest chlorine level and see what happens after it is filled.

[raptureready1953]

Hi again. I refilled the pool . I had only dumped about 1/4 of it. Water temp is cooler, but still cloudy, but not as cloudy. I can see the bottom of the pool now. It is blue with milky color? I noticed brown stuff as I said on the bottom in places. I vacuumed it up, and came back out later and more is there, I vacuumed that too. The pump runs 24 /7. New filter. Chlorine level is still about 25. And holding. What else can be wrong? Is that brown stuff alegea? Why is the clorox not killing it if it is algea, and the chlorine level still so high?

Ok, now for the PH. Most said do not bother with it until I get algea/chlorine problem fixed. I did the five way tester. The one where you add the pool water and then the drops. The color comes up really light, but then turns to purple after a few seconds. So that is going from low to high on the numerical scale. From add soda ash to add acid. ?????? How can that be. Is there a time to tell the number, color? Right after dropping in the drops? Or wait a few seconds for color to change?

Thanks again everyone. If that brown is not algea, I will wait for chlorine to go to safe swimming level and then I am jumping in. LOL.