cloudy blue water

Hey everyone, I opened the pool this year to deep green water as i just installed a safety cover for the new little one at our place. Balanced PH and Alkalinity to 7.4 and 100 ppm then i did a triple shock with Cal Hypo. The pool is now blue but very cloudy. Today I went to check my levels...

Hi everyone! Hoping for some help getting our pool clear. First some background: we have a 18x33 above ground pool - 4ft deep. This is our 3rd year with our pool… and every year we feel like it gets harder. Year 1 we were battling algae and an old filter, Year 2 we tried the Sustain system...

Hi All, I am brand new to pool ownership and hoping for some insight on why my pool is cloudy. It’s blue but cloudy :( I have an 18,000 gallon inground pool and have been home testing ph, chlorine, and alkalinity daily as well as vacuuming daily. I replaced my cartridge filter about 3 days ago...

I am recovered from a bad algae outbreak - now passing the overnight test (two nights in row). My TF-Pro test kit gives me: CH: 200 (goal is 300) CYA: ~20 (currently adding, goal is 40) pH: 7.5 (goal) TA: 100 (goal is 80) Shallow end is 3 (or 3.5 feet) and I can barely see the bottom the...

First off sorry if this is a dumb thread I decided to join because I would love some advice… This is my first year with above ground pool 4000 gallons maybe, Steel Pro Max 15 x 42 pool for my son and I am being tested by the pool God’s! My test strips are showing same results almost always...

25K gallon, in-ground, vinyl pool Opened last Saturday 6/10 Shallow side I can see the bottom, but it is very obscured Deep side I can't even begin to make out the drain Water is otherwise clear/blue Tests: Taylor K-2006 (T) at 7:30am today Pool store test (PS) at 10:30am today FC: T: 12.5...

First time trying to balance the pool chemistry myself following the Pool company opening the pool last week. Currently the pool is cloudy blue. Pool details: in ground 30,000 gallons, Plaster from 1963 painted white by prior owner (dolphin is slowing removing the paint....), Chlorine, Sand...

Pool is bouncing back from being swamp green. FC: 15 TC: 15 pH: 7.5 TA: 34 CYA: <67 Want to add clarifier to my cloudy pool (Cartridge filter pool pump) but am not sure if its okay to add with such high chlorine. I know about baking soda being able to raise the alkalinity in pool. I Wanted the...

We have a 21' above ground pool with a hayward filter (SM2106T in case it matters). The filter is about 7 years old. I recall having a slight issue last summer with cloudy water that wouldn't quit and now upon opening we are losing pressure and the pump/filter combo seems to be running quite...

I’m a new pool owner. This was just built late last summer. See specs in my signature. We had our pool builder close The pool last fall and open it in the first week of May. After vacuuming a few times to get the winter debris out the pool looked great. About 10 days ago we noticed our...

Hello all! I have had this pool for 10 years now. This is the first time I have opened the pool w/ the new pump and cartridge filter. I am running the pump at a constant 3150 RPM. The flow rate says ~80 GPM Depending on how many leaves have fallen into the pool/skimmer basket. The PSI on the...

Hello all, I’m a first time pool owner sent here from Reddit. I have a 23’ 4’ deep vinyl liner above ground pool. (15,000 gallons or so). I have a hayward pump and sand filter that has been running more or less constantly since last Wednesday. I’m providing as much information as I have in the...

I am two weeks into a SLAM to get my 26K gallon AG pool operational. I have seemingly tried everything under the sun to get my pool clear - it is currently a cloudy light blue and has not improved much over the last week (maybe 5% better in one week). If I look closely I can barely see my pool...

Hello all! Struggled with our new pool last season, did a terrible job over the colder months and started out this year as a TFP devotee, already spreading the gospel! We started our SLAM a few weeks ago. First got our PH down to 7.2. Initial CYA tests weren't reliable (so we were slamming at...

My pool was very cloudy due to sand mixing in with the water and not filtering out. So I thought about just using some flocculant. The good, the flocculant is working. The bad, I have a cartridge filter & Polaris 280 vacuum. I've had a cartridge filter since then pool was built 18 years ago, and...

Hi everyone! I am pretty new here so learning lots. My pool has been difficult this year. I’m either battling a leaky liner, cloudiness or algae. I’ve been in a SLAM for well over a week. The green is gone but like every other time, it stays cloudy. I’d like to close it up but they say must be...

First summer in our new home with a pool. We have the tf-100 kit. Have been using the pool math app and following on here. Things have been pretty good until the last week. 25K gallon vinyl liner, Hayward t9 salt cell. Salt is 3200, TA, which we’ve been fighting all summer, is at an all time low...

Hey guys, This is only my second year with a pool. I came back from vacation a couple of weeks ago and my pool was green, cloudy, with floating algae. I was using the PermaSalt system (have now ditched). Went to the pool store (lesson learned), and they sold me some black algaecide (which I...

Pool was very green upon start up and we had a little trouble with the pump system. Everything seems to be running now. I have been shocking the pool quiet often. I’ve gone through roughly 32 gallons of shock. Filter has been running continuously for 9 days. We have a Hayward sand filter with...

I am sure you get these newbie questions all the time, but I am stuck and the local pool store has been no help. The store opened the pool and installed a Jandy Salt System and Opened my pool. To say that the opening was botched was an understatement. It a long story about that and getting them...

Hello all. I'm feeling a little sheepish tonight as I've spent the last 4 or 5 days trying to clean up my swamp, and overlooked my CYA to chlorine SLAM value, so have (I think) been chronically UNDER chlorinating during my SLAM. But, I'm also running into some results I don't quite understand...

After fighting with brown algae for several weeks, I eventually gave up and drained and refilled my pool this past weekend. I have tried to keep the water balanced since then but the water has already started appearing cloudy. I am not sure what may be causing this? Right now, the FC is about...

Hi, I'm hoping to get some help and ideas on an interesting issue this season. When I started working on the pool for this season, it was a 2 ft and I was able to balance it and it was a bit cloudy blue. I filled it up and done another shock, waited and did clarifier. The blue cloudiness is...

Hi, It’s been awhile since I’ve been on here. I’m coming out from a huge Algae In my pool. I have finally got it cleaned up from that (I hope) and the water looks fair - is not crystal clear. I just tested and I have CC 2, FC 8.5, TOtal C 10.5, Alk 70, CH 125 and CYA 40. Is it just gonna take...

Hi there TFP folks! Name's Matt, I'm a newbie (both here on the site and as a pool owner). I've lost faith in local pool store folks, they only appear to want to sell me chemicals (and lots of em!). I've been silently following the prescribed SLAM instructions on this site. I'm an engineer and...

I bought the "green murder" Green to Clean to kill the green algae. I followed the shock instructions. This is the second time ive used this product with success. Reading around here, i will try the SLAM method next time. What i have now is the white cloud. I feel like the algae is dead...

Bought a house that came with a neglected above ground pool (no idea how long). We purchased a new sand filter, cleaned out debris, shocked and got it to cloudy blue over the course of about a week. It has now been cloudy for over a month & 1/2 and we can not get it clear. Since the original...

Hi All, We recently moved to a new home in the Indianapolis, IN area that came with an approx. 20'x40' in-ground pool. We have been working since late April to get the pool open, clean and ready to swim, but still experiencing some issues that could use the expertise from the folks here. Let...

I’ve been back and forth to three pool stores multiple times this month. Has me use alkaline, calcium, clarifier, flock. Now back to super shocking. Still constant cloudiness but no algae Help! Hardness 250 Total chlorine .5 even after shock last night Feee chlorine .5 Ph 7.6 Alkaline 120 Cya 40

Hello All, I am a brand new above ground pool owner (27' diameter, 18,500 gallons, sand filter). I have been reading pool school and working to clear my pool but am not having any luck so far. I am attempting the SLAM process, and so far the water has turned from green to blue, but is...