Cloudy Water

[staclear]

Will Super floc help to clear water quickly, or just waste of money?

[aylad]

If you still have a greenish tint to your water, you still have algae to kill, so you're wasting your money if you buy floc. Once you've killed the algae and have blue/cloudy water, and have given your filter a couple of days to get it out and still have cloudy water, THEN you might consider a floc.

It just takes some patience.......

Janet

[staclear]

Thanks janet. The pool is a blueish color and its definitely cloudy. I HAVE given the filter a couple of days and its still cloudy. In regards to superfloc, how many quarts of floc should I use per gallon? I read that some have a 1 quart per 40,000 gallon ratio

[aylad]

The only one that I have ever used advised 16 oz for my 29K gallon pool. I just squirted the contents over the surface of the pool, left the pump running overnight, and it was clear the next morning with the exception of the very deepest layer of the deep end. I repeated the 16 oz treatment on the deep end only, left the pump running, and by the next morning it was so crystal clear that the deep end actually looked shallow.

This is in a pool that I started up with new zeolite without backwashing first (a whole other story, posted elsewhere in the forum), and all that fine dust along with regular sand infusions from a faulty filter had mixed into a very muddy looking pool that I had contemplated draining, so it was an extreme circumstance. However, it is so crystal clear now that my daughter's friend who came over yesterday to swim actually asked if she could touch bottom in the deep end because it sparkles and looks shallow.
Janet

[staclear]

I can not find Super Floc in stores, ordering on line it takes 5 days to arrive. I need it today so my kids can swim this week end. Would the Hydro Floc I found in store work the same?

[aylad]

Probably, I think they all work pretty much the same--although most other floc bottles I see say to add the floc, run the pump for a couple of hours, then shut it off for 12-24 hours, then vacuum the stuff that settles to the bottom. The stuff I used was by Natural Chemistry, and the product was called "Clear and Perfect". It was labeled as a clarifier, not as a floc. I bought it off the shelf at Leslie's.

Janet