noob with cloudy water

[swimmerfred]

Ok, began doing as instructed. In the meantime; My LPS guy noticed that my pressure was a bit high on my filter gauge. I re-plumbed with a by-pass for the solar heater. I did not realize how much flow my solar heater was restricting. It has to be moving water 5x as much as before. Thing looks like a hot tub jet shooting out now. Could it be possible that all along I just wasn't getting enough flow through the filter? At this point, I just want to get it cleaned up for winter. Currently in the process of lowering pH and scrubbing. Still green, but i noticed that algae doesn't settle on fittings, ladder, etc like it used to.

[PoolDoc]

Poor flow and filtration are certainly contributing causes . . . and could lead to conditions in which you would tend to 'breed' highly chlorine resistant algae, since algae could retreat to low flow / low chlorine areas whenever you tried to attack the problem.

You still may have some very chlorine resistant algae. So, I'd still recommend the process above.

Also, in a situation like this taking borates to 50+ ppm is likely to help, if you want to pursue that.

Ben