pool question

[photo chick]

This might be the problem... (http://www.greenapple.com/~andyshupe...q/pool4_lq.wmv)
You and Brown have an unusual facination with "floaters" :jawdrop:

[Mr. C]

8) how long are you running your filter each day?
Pools are simple to maintain once you get the system down.
1) How much and what type of chlorine are you using?
2) Do you shock?
3) What type of filter do you have?
4) How often do you back-wash or change the filter element?
5) How often do you check your water chems?
6) Plaster or pebble?
7) Stabilizer level?
My water is about 90* most of the summer and I don't have algea issues. I have a basic sand filter and no chlorinator. I just add a few tabs on a regular basis, shock after pool parties and storms, and backwash on a regular basis, dump the pool water once a year. That is it.
I bet you over stabilized but I need more details.

[Outnumbered]

8) how long are you running your filter each day?
Thanks...I knew I forgot something

[Lavey29]

Phosphate levels can affect your chlorines ability to fight algae. I have high phosphate levels also and treat the pool once a week with a couple capfulls of "Phosfree". Phosphate is everywhere blowing in the air from fertilizers, dirty rain from smogged air, in the water...etc...Try to maintain the phos levels as best you can and shock the water every 3 weeks or so and use algicide as needed

[scarabrick2]

Run the pump for 1 hr evey thousand gallons.
Run it at two different times or three if you have a timer that does that.
Geeen algae ??
High chlorine demand.
KEEP 3 ppm chlorine
get some algaecides ( Quats : quaternary ammonium salts) this might foam the pool a little..
polyquats is more expensive but very effective.
Post you water sample results....
Rick

[coolchange]

Pools are simple to maintain once you get the system down.
1) How much and what type of chlorine are you using?
2) Do you shock?
3) What type of filter do you have?
4) How often do you back-wash or change the filter element?
5) How often do you check your water chems?
6) Plaster or pebble?
7) Stabilizer level?
My water is about 90* most of the summer and I don't have algea issues. I have a basic sand filter and no chlorinator. I just add a few tabs on a regular basis, shock after pool parties and storms, and backwash on a regular basis, dump the pool water once a year. That is it.
I bet you over stabilized but I need more details.
IF you're doing that you don't have much experience with pool chemistry

[Outnumbered]

IF you're doing that you don't have much experience with pool chemistry
Well you have no clue how hard the water is here. There is no other way to get the calcium/hardness out of the pool. After a year in our climate the evaporation rate is so high in Phoenix that you are basically evaporating and refilling the pool several times over 12 months. For $150 in water I can dump it and start over. If you don't you will be fighting off the chart calcium levels and you will not win.
Why do I even bother to help? This place is really starting to grate my nerves.

[coolchange]

Well yes I do. It comes out of the faucet at about 600-700 ppm tds. A number that would mean old tired water any where else. And just dumping the water is not even an option in some places. I guess that was just the point I was getting at in a round about way.
cool- not really trying to grate on anybody-change

[Xlration Marine]

Pools are simple to maintain once you get the system down.
1) How much and what type of chlorine are you using?
2) Do you shock?
3) What type of filter do you have?
4) How often do you back-wash or change the filter element?
5) How often do you check your water chems?
6) Plaster or pebble?
7) Stabilizer level?
My water is about 90* most of the summer and I don't have algea issues. I have a basic sand filter and no chlorinator. I just add a few tabs on a regular basis, shock after pool parties and storms, and backwash on a regular basis, dump the pool water once a year. That is it.
I bet you over stabilized but I need more details.
You for got one.
#8 how many hours do you run it. Mine runs for 10, at night. The hotter the water the longer she needs to run.

[Xlration Marine]

Pools are simple to maintain once you get the system down.
1) How much and what type of chlorine are you using?
2) Do you shock?
3) What type of filter do you have?
4) How often do you back-wash or change the filter element?
5) How often do you check your water chems?
6) Plaster or pebble?
7) Stabilizer level?
My water is about 90* most of the summer and I don't have algea issues. I have a basic sand filter and no chlorinator. I just add a few tabs on a regular basis, shock after pool parties and storms, and backwash on a regular basis, dump the pool water once a year. That is it.
I bet you over stabilized but I need more details.
You for got one.
#8 how many hours do you run it. Mine runs for 10, at night. The hotter the water the longer she needs to run.