Algae Blooms Even Happen to Mods!

[CarlD]

Sorry for all the hard luck you've had this year with the pool - I hope the trip was worth it. Maybe it's time to make that natural pool your permanent pool.

Welcome back.

Yeah, we consider that! It's just a confluence of events: A 12 year old pool with a liner at the end of its (patched) life and walls that are in need of replacement, a horrible winter that did damage, and setting my SWCG too low for a month's absence. But I also came back to a dead coffee maker, when there was no coffee yesterday morning! Now THAT was a catastrophe!!!!

[swimdaddy]

Thanks, I apreciate your candor and your willingness to show your issue as well as your confidence that you can fix it using the methods promoted here. This is my first year with our pool and I haven't had any problems yet, thanks to this forum, the Pool solutions site and all you moderators, but when I do, this post will help me to relax and deal with it. It seems like most posts are mostly panic, because we don't know what to do, so it's nice to read this.

[CarlD]

That's good to hear! Sure, I have a few choice curse words pop out of my mouth because I had come home to yet another problem I have to take care of...but that was tempered by the confidence that I know EXACTLY what to do and how to do it. The algae is dead and the water is blue again, not green. Now I just have to wait for the filter and vacuuming to clarify the water again, and I only found the algae yesterday morning.

Like every other pool owner with an algae bloom, in addition to the BBB method, I must add P.O.P.P.--Pool Owner Patience and Persistence!

[swimdaddy]

Or K.I.S.S.-- Keep it simple stupid, not referring to anyone in this forum, of course. Or maybe it's "keep it super simple"!

[CarlD]

No, we're all good with "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"

It's slowly clearing but through the murk I can see it's all completely blue and nothing's on the bottom. Other biologic detritus makes it tougher to kill the algae as the chlorine attacks them as well, so get those leaves, seeds, pine combs, branches and dead bugs outta there!

[swimdaddy]

Other biologic detritus makes it tougher to kill the algae as the chlorine attacks them as well, so get those leaves, seeds, pine combs, branches and dead bugs outta there!

Didn't know that. This is great! Any other moderators wanna let their pools go nasty and post the clean-up?!

[CarlD]

Nobody WANTS a mess! I came home to one after a month away.....

[Watermom]

Any other moderators wanna let their pools go nasty and post the clean-up?!

No!!!! We'll just let Carl tell about his swamp!

[Pappy]

Is it possible that high chlorine levels affect CYA test results? Kinda like high chlorine skews pH readings?

[CarlD]

That may be...Great Thought! Ben? Chem_Geek?