Has anyone ever had Ostracod in their pool? These are microscopic crustations that live in ponds and lakes.....apparently someone has brought them into our pool on a...

Can someone please help me out. I am, again, pool illetarate. What is backwashing and how can i do it???

18 x 4 fot intex round vinal pool

Hello all,

I recently bought a house with a pool in Orlando. The pool is kidney shaped and holds around 16000 gallons.

By the time I got to working with the pool...

I recently purchased a home with a indoor fiberglass pool that had been neglected for some time, here's my problem. The pool was very low on chlorine, the water was not...

I have been fighting alot of algae, I have kept my chlorine above 10 and it has stayed elevated for 24 hrs on its own, I still have added more just to make sure all is...

My pool got ahead of me. I now have some strong stains on the pool walls. What do I do to get it under control ?

Ok, I had used floc and vacuumed algae out of pool...seemed as if I had gotton 95% of it out. Over the last couple days I have noticed a bit more on the bottom of the...

We have a salt system pool. Filter broke and it took a week to get it fixed. In the meantime we had a serious algae problem. Now the water is clear but about 20% of the...

ok theoretically, if some one swims in say a lake with algea in it and then dosent wash their bathing suit, then you go swim in a pool or hot tub with a low sanitizer...

First I want to thank Chemgeek and Backglass for all the great advice. I've been dealing with algae problems and was advised to use Dichlor.( I also needed to raise my...

Hello. I was wondering if Chlor Brite (Sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione dihydrate) is the equivalent to Dichlor. I have recvd some excellent advice for using Dichlor to...

I have been reading all the advice given to people who are fighting the algae problem and understand I need to keep my fac at atleast 10 ppm for 24 hours. I shocked the...

We have a big bloom of "something" going on in our pool. The water is cloudy with a sediment in the low flow areas that looks like fine sand with an occasional...

The CYA eading in my pool is low and I don't know what to do to raise it.

:? I posted a post in regards to keeping my skimmer basket down. I have seen that there have been several views but no help. Anyway, it is down now.

My question now is,...

I just purchased a home with a pool that is an above ground 15x33x4ft. deep. i took the cover off and started running the filter with a brand new cartridge. after a day...

We've had our pool for 14 years and have been using baquecil with not much difficulty other than the expense. This year everything was going fine until a few weeks ago....

We have had our pool for 2 years. We have a lot of green water this year, and this afternoon it went from green, to floating algae. How do we treat this with a salt...

OK, I shock my pool (18,000 gallons vinyl) every Sunday night with hypochlorite. I keep Trichlor 3" tabs in a floater at all times, anywhere between 1-3 tablets. I...

I think I might be paying the price for buying some cheap claifier at Lowes the other day. After putting it in the pool, I had algae within about 3-4 days. Can this...