if your pool isnt painted i would start off using a metal brush a spray bottle from lowes or any hardware store a couple bottles of maratic acid and...

The ozone generator is either under a suction vacuum or return venturi. This setup means that you will see air bubbles all the time, even if the bulb...

This morning i put 2 lbs of shock in my pool and within 15 mins it was a beautiful shade of green. I think that meant that the PH was too high and...

bleach is low concentrate liquid chlorine.

liquid chlorine is typically 10%-14% and bleach is 3%-6%

There are over 20,000 pool owners at The PoolForum and over 10,000 at Trouble Free Pool plus hundreds of others on other forums including this one...

Danny,

What was the Cyanuric Acid (CYA) level in the pool that had 9 ppm FC with an algae bloom? Was this pool using only stabilized chlorine (e.g....

Dihydrogen monoxide is a pool chemical that does not increase TDS.

Unfortunately the water most people add to their pool is not pure H2O and thus...

Unless your pH got high and/or you used an algaecide with copper in it (or your Trichlor pucks had copper in them), then it is unlikely the green is...

Thanks for the advice on the test kit. Mine is a pretty basic reagent, so it will certainly be something that I upgrade before next summer.

Just...

Thank you Debbie, I just started having this problem over the last 2 months and i have spent so much money trying to get my Mustard Algea cleared...

A follow up, this morning the pool water LOOKs crystal clear. I bring the water sample to the pool shop again:
FC 0
CC 0
pH 6.9
TA 50
CH 225
CYA 0...

Just to be clear, when you add chlorine to a bromine pool, only the water in the immediate area of the chlorine turns lime green. This dissipates as...

See this post .

Though you are right that hitting the pool hard with chlorine is the answer (unless the Cyanuric Acid level is very high in which case dilution first...

Mgara,
Do you mind telling me the process by which you treat your pool with "Yellow Treat?" I'm new to all of this and really need some...

If you have a tear in the filter grids, the pool will blow DE back into the pool. There is no need to remove the filter cover. Backwash, and refil...

How often you diligently brush the sides and bottom of your new pool and what are your chemical readings.PH, FC, CYA,TA?

That was 10 months ago and things have been fine since then. In fact I don't think I had a nasty form of algae after all. When I described it some...