Algae . . . or something else? Recognizing & treating pool algae successfully.

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Miscellaneous Algae

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The typical spring-time swamp found when opening improperly closed pools. Cleaning this up, without draining, requires MASSIVE amounts of chlorine.



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The bacterial / fungal slime sometimes called "water mold".



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Examples of algae dust, remaining after algae is killed. Mustard algae often grows IN the dust piles.







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Non-Algae

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Results of using quaternary algaecide:





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Results of using copper algaecide: clear water; stained pool!





Interestingly, this user was quite proud of himself for having worked it all out himself, and was only a little worried about the lingering "algae stains".
TN20186

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An example of killing algae with chlorine . . . and cleaning up with a DE filter.
Live algae totally clogs DE filters, but once the algae is dead, nothing cleans the water as fast as a DE filter.





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More copper stains . . .



TN22990

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