Pool still cloudy white. Been a week today... This stinks.

[Lawrosa]

OK all #'s normal.

Still cloudy.... Ho..Hum!!!!

I will post afternoon the status.

[Lawrosa]

OK all #'s normal.

FC 4
alk 80
ph 7.2
cya 30

Still cloudy. Filtering 24/7

Ho Hum. Vacuum and brush everyday.

Will probably copy and past this for tomorrows update. Will be two weeks Tuesday.

[Watermom]

Is your filter pressure rising? Can you test and get either a CC or a TC reading in addition to the FC reading?

[madwil]

What's your CH? your other numbers look good, but CH can be screwy with cloud issues.
Can you see your return water? does it look more/less cloudy than the pool?

[Lawrosa]

I tested hardness with my hach hardness test. It has the powder you add one scope. It tests at 1 gpg or 17.1 ppm.

I will test CC when it comes down and I can see the results in the tube. Last time it was FC 1. then add r3 reagent and it read a 2. So that was TC 3, and CC 1? 2? But I have been shocking.

[CarlD]

Never heard of that test for hardness. The only powder test I'm familiar with is the FAS-DPD chlorine test.

Carl

[Watermom]

If you have a CC of 1, then you are fighting something in the water and need to continue shocking and try and consistently keep your chlorine level at about 15ppm. (How high have you been shocking to?) With a cya of 30, a cl level of 4 isn't gonna kill something growing in the water. I am not familiar with the units you used to measure your hardness level. Another thing I am wondering is whether your pump is too powerful. A 1hp pump is pretty big for a 6200 gallon pool. Too big of a pump on too small of a filter will not filter the water well because the pump forces debris through the filter with too much pressure and your sand can't trap it.

[Lawrosa]

The hardness test is ammonium chloride... I use it to test my well hardness level. I think its total hardness?????

I have been shocking to above 13 ppm for all this time. I just started letting it come down to normal levels because nothing has been changing. The pool is white/blue cloudy.

I have been adding DE and running the pump on low. So I understand the too powerful of a pump thing. The pressure does rise with DE but not without it. I have a new cartridge coming for my old cartridge filter that I am going to hook back up. It will not be here until tuesday.

[Watermom]

Go ahead and shock up a little higher and see if that helps. Try to sustain the high reading without letting it yo-yo up and down. Your pressure should be rising. I'm wondering if you are having filter issues.

Edit: I have also asked Ben to take another look at this thread and see if he has any other suggestions for you. He probably won't be around til at least this evening, however.