PH and Total Alkalinity - Are they the same?

What I mean is the following:-

Is Alkalinity a measure of PH?

A low Ph 7.0 means the alkalinity is low? and you

need...

I took a peak under the cover and the bottom of my pool is covered with algae. Stopped by a couple of places and haven't gotten a straight answer from anyone and what...

Ok where do i start. I have tried everything and i dont even want to mention the money i have spent. :( What eles do i say my pool is green. At first i used lots of...

hi there!

ok...like most people here, my problem is with green algae also. sadly i live in a place where there are no water testing centers nor pool shops. the only...

Hi.. I have a 33,000 inground pool which developed an alage problem on Thursday..the water went into green basically overnight. I've changed the chlorine tabs we were...

hey guys. im looking for any pictures of pools with algae. mustard, black, green and pink is what im looking for. thanks

Could anyone assist me the problem of slime on sides of an above ground plastic pool, how to remove and keep removed. Thanks

I have been cleaning my pool for 3 month and have been doing good. today i went out to walmart and bought 1 quart of chemical for green algae. I poured this in my pool...

I'm in a rental that has a small pool with a waterfall. About 3 wks ago we started getting cloudy water. We were told to just keep chlorine tablets in the floater, add a...

I have new pool, only 5 months old. It has a salt water system with a Gold Line AquaLine chlorine generator. Everything seemed to be operating properly until about a...

Hi there,

Since four years I´m maintaining my pool, and I managed it quite well,

and it was almost perfectly clean and blue until last week:

At this time I...

Our pool has been great this summer. With a black bottom, it keeps it a few degrees warmer. However, we are noticing white spots all over the sides and bottom. Is the...

I have a 25,000 gallon gunite pool. My cl level is off the chart^^^. My ph level is @ 7.8. The problem is I still have a major algae problem. Please help.

hi all,

I'm a little confused as to the order of things when it comes to pool chemicals.

Currently my 20000gal gunite pool is very very green and cloudy, i can...

Hey! a friend suggested to apply granular chlorinne over the pool surface so it falls onto the patchy, black algae.

I spread it like feeding the chooks.

15 mins...

I have black dirty patches on bottom of pool.

Is this Black Algae?

My pool is the pebble finish.

Have just bought an auto matic cleaner and have put up with

silt...

I hope you can help me. I have been trying to get the algae cleaned up in my pool for weeks. I need to close the pool and the algae just wont disappear. Can I close the...

I have a new white plaster pool and have what I believe to be a black algae problem - small black circles (about 6 or so the size of a pencil eraser) in the pool. I have...

I have a vinal liner in my pool. Several weeks ago we had algae which we treated then vacuumed. Now I have several black stains on the bottom of the liner. What can I do...