How Do I Kill White Molds and Pink Slime?

[waterbear]

I am skeptical of any new product that does not have documented studies that show it's effectiveness because I have seen LOTS of "snake oil" products but I do have an open mind and if you want to give it a try they are offering it for free. At best it will work quickly with no side effects, at worse you will still have the mold and have to try one of the other tactics. FWIW, I have used my own personal pool as a test pool on more than one occasion. Usually I have been disappointed but there has been one notable exception and that was adding borate.

In any case your pool will be out of commission for a week or more while you get the water in shape. I will tell you this. If it were my pool I would add the borate (already have it in my pool, BTW) and go with the sodium bromine and just resign myself to the fact that I will have a high chlorine demand until the bromine is consumed by sunlight and chlorine. Monocloramine is nasty stuff in my opinion but it does work. I am less enthused about the linear quat algaecide. Your pool will look like a bubble bath for a while and it will be very irritating to the eyes.
I would definitely look into the product for biofilms but I would not get my hopes up. It seems that biofilm eradication has become the NEW phosphate remover to the pool/spa industry since the price of lanthanum salts has gone way up. Everything from enzymes to sphagnum moss (really? REALLY?!?) to sodium metasilicate/sodium carbonate/potash alum are being used in these new miracle products

[PoolDoc]

The OP -- smullins34 -- is running at least 2 threads on this topic, one here and one at TFP.I'm going to ask him to pick one or the other. But I'm closing this thread till he does.

She thought it was ridiculous that I didn't want her to waste our time, so I have enthusiastically supported her right to use another forum.

BUT . . . it's a good topic, and I'd like to use Waterbear's and my posts as the basis for a sticky on this later on. So, I've cleaned up some of the OT stuff (no blame -- I do it too!)

If you have any experience on this issue, please share!