I have a mild case of mustard algae right now. I think I understand some of the chemistry behind the BBB method - the pucks have stabilizer which can get too high, but you need some stabilizer or you can't keep your chlorine level high enough to kill the bugs.

If you use household bleach instead of pucks, since it contains no stabilizer, how do you keep your chlorine levels steady? Do you add a gallon or two every single night? What happens if you leave town?

I don't have a reading on my pool levels yet - son is out doing a test now - but we've added some shock to start killing the algae.

Well, son just came in and said the CYA is 100. 29K pool. Is that high?