Pydpiper
Flashlight Enthusiast
We went away for a few days, pool greened on us. Shocked it, turned the green to a cloudy pool, can't seem to be able to do anything to clear it up, I need help!
Any thoughts?
Thanks..
Any thoughts?
Thanks..
Just a couple of curiosity questions: Since it sounds like you're running a seasonal pool would it make more sense to drain it each year instead? Also, is it a plaster pool, and last question, what filter type are you running?
The pool is 4' deep, 15' round pool, pretty small..
I dumped a 3 gallon pail of chlorine in about 4 days ago, that is what switched it from green to cloudy, and also what I called "shocked".
There is about 3-4" of visibility in there, pretty bad..
I went in it yesterday to have a better look/feel, there is no slime. Besides the color you would never know anything was wrong..
Is that enough info? Let me know if there is anything else I can provide.
And thank you, very much!
It's hard to speculate about that one. If you have a salt cell, it's likely calcium and other generated minerals from the production of chlorine. It usually accumulates in positive feed spas due to the fact there's no vacuum cleaner and no constant return from the spa. In other words, the heavy minerals in the form of crystals stay at the bottom of the spa as return comes from the pump, to the spa, then spills into the pool. This, just to say if you don't have a spa but you have a salt cell, I'm not surprised it's floating around. This is normal and the filter will trap it as soon as the water passes the filter. There's a way of testing this theory which I won't go into unless you have a salt cell. If you're not sure what you have just post of picture of your pool equipment.
If you don't have a salt cell (salt pool) it could literally be anything. If you have a sand filter with old sand, that can sometimes blow past the baffles and the smallest sand will suspend in the water. If you have a DE filter, you may be seeing DE material floating around due to a pinhole or a tear in the micro screening. These would be very tiny though.
Honestly, unless you're seeing anomalous characteristics in the water during daylight I really wouldn't sweat it. The pool light will show every single detail in the water just like a flashlight will in dusty or moisture ladened air. This doesn't mean that you're not seeing the beginning of a problem somewhere, but until it gets worse or becomes more evident you might was well not worry about it. I would liken it to taking your car to the service center and the technician noting that one of the seals is slightly damp but not leaking yet.
I had a similar thing happen with my Mom's pool a while back. Not a pool guy but I do work at a drinking water production plant, so I decided to treat it the same way I do at work. I assumed the cloudiness was due to the killed algae from the chlorine shock and I just needed to get the particles big enough to settle or filter out of the water. I bought a gallon of Alum (aluminum sulfate) and a couple ounces of polymer (cation). I don't recall how these were labeled as pool chemicals because I was looking at the chemical names in the ingrediants. But it might have been marked Clarifier. These are the chemicals we use in water treatment to clean up the water to make it drinkable, along with chlorine. IIRC, I dosed the pool at about 1/2 gallon of alum for evey 10,000 gallons in the pool and didn't even need to use the cation. It cleared up the pool in about a day. The cation might be needed to help polish the water clarity but it's the alum that really makes everything clump up big enough to get filtered out. If you need to use cation the dose would be about 2 oz per 10,000 gallons.We went away for a few days, pool greened on us. Shocked it, turned the green to a cloudy pool, can't seem to be able to do anything to clear it up, I need help!
Any thoughts?
Thanks..