Thanks Pool Doc for the advise.
I have in ground Gunite,23000 GLs. mesh covered in the winter,was opened last Friday. I use the same process i have done in the last 10 years. Water color was dark green, 1st day I used 4 lb of shocks and a 1/2 gallon of 30% algaecide, 48oz of acid to lower PH, when I dumped the shock in the water, 2 minutes later the white gooey stuff floated to the surface, my thinking was because of heavy Algae, the chlorine shock surfaced to the top.
I switched to liquid bleach, using 24 Qts every day, with that, also the Gooey white stuff surfaced to the top. I used about 4 lbs of filter clarifier which I used for the last 10 years and the pool cleared up by next day, not this time. I repeated the process again while still using bleach, water got blue but no t clear, Yesterday I used 1 Qt of Hydro Floc, 2 minutes later the white Gooey stuff surfaced again, which the label on the Floc bottle suggest this might happen, I ran the pump for an hour, shut it off, 12 hours later I vacuumed to waste, but the white stuff would not go away and remained on top.
PoolDoc, as I mentioned this is the 1st time I experience this kind of problem, the pool used to clear up with in 4 days with pump running 24/7.
I will take your advise and DE test the filter, use liquid bleach, and monitor it for the next week, hopefully the kids can swim next week end.

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