ARGHHHHH!!! Cloudy water

[let_her_flicker]

I am by no means an expert, but after reading the thread I have a few questions. Today your alkalinity is 250. On 6/16 you reported 133. That is a big difference.

When you vacuum are you vacuuming to Waste or into the filter? If you are going into the filter, you need to backwash or the dead algae will get back into your pool making it cloudy. Every time you vacuum, I would vacuum to waste and get rid of that nasty stuff. Keep at it with the bleach.

Sometimes when lots of chemicals have been added it can make your pool cloudy. One time Ben talked about pool water just getting worn out and needing to replace most of it. There is really no time table or chart about it, but the theory is at somepoint, a person's pool water may not respond anymore.

If you have check out this link, it may help you:

http://www.poolsolutions.com/gd/cloudy.html

Good luck and keep working at it.

[aylad]

You definitely need to get a drop-based kit, and if your WalMart carries the $15 5-way, that would be a good one to start with. The strips are very unreliable, and are not worth much at all when trying to clear up a problem. As Marie pointed out, CYA of 0 is WAY different than CYA 30. If the bags of shock you bought were cal hypo, then see if you can return them--with your hardness that high you definitely do NOT want to put any more calcium in your pool. In fact, with your Ca and TA both that high, I'm not sure that some of your cloudy problem isn't precipitating calcium.

So..the best thing you can do is get a drop-based kit and run tests for Cl, pH, TA, Ca, and CYA and post them here. Alternatively, you could get a pool store to test for them (IF they used drop-based testing) and get their printout to post here. Just don't buy anything they want to sell you, unless it's a drop-based test kit!

We'll be able to help you go from there.

Janet