So I never got around to buying the cover I needed last fall and waited too late. Leaves were already falling bigtime.

I went out about every day and scooped up leaves from the surface and emptied the skimmer but I know some fell. The last few days I've been trying to scoop any remaining leaves from the bottom of the pool with the leaf rake. I don't think there are a lot left. But I can't see either since it's a swampy green.

I got the alkalinity up and then started dumping in Ultra Bleach 6%. I started off with 4 gallons in my 18x36 inground pool. My test kit only reads up to 5ppm but chlorine levels were way above that... much "redder" than the chart went to.

That night I added 2 more gallons of bleach and retested... levels still way up. The next day the water was noticeably more milky blue than green. I thought things were going well since it looked like I was killing the algae. Then it started happening. All this brown slime is coming to the surface and floating there.

I was hoping the skimmer would get it all but it's so thick it just gunks up the skimmer and it doesn't go down into the drain. I have to scoop it out with my hand.

I've been taking it off the surface with a leaf skimmer on the pole but I could do this forever and not get it all.

Any ideas here?

Thanks,
J.T.