Green, Cloudy, Dirty, I got it all in my salt water pool?

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With the FC so high I don't know how it could be but there are small creature's living in the water? I think they are a small bugs but they were darting around like fish? 2 or 3 of them around the light at night?

1/2 inch long with Little wings they use like fins in the water? do I need to drain this or will POP be enough?

[waterbear]

Keep your FC up until the pool clears. In the meantime get your salt level tested....you might need to drain some water to dilute it. You want about 3200 ppm. The AquaChek White salt strips are fairly accurate. They should be within a few hundered ppm of you actual salt level.

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Actually this afternoon the pool was clear? I vacuumed and brushed and now it's a little hard to see the bottom in the deep end clearly, but you can see it. The shallow end and the spa look clear?

FC=12.5-15ppm
TC=12.5-15ppm
CC=0.0

PH=7.2

In the light there are lots of little white specs in the water I'm guessing salt, outside of the occasional bleached white piece off grass that's all there is in the water.

I still have to get a salt test kit, or strips.

How high of a FC reading is safe to swim in? The kids are starting to ask? B:-) I guess I'm on the right track.

Thank You So Much Everyone, but especially you Waterbear, you practically held my hand the whole way.

[waterbear]

Actually this afternoon the pool was clear? I vacuumed and brushed and now it's a little hard to see the bottom in the deep end clearly, but you can see it. The shallow end and the spa look clear?

FC=12.5-15ppm
TC=12.5-15ppm
CC=0.0

PH=7.2

In the light there are lots of little white specs in the water I'm guessing salt, outside of the occasional bleached white piece off grass that's all there is in the water.
Salt, calcium or dead algae most likely
I still have to get a salt test kit, or strips.
very important
How high of a FC reading is safe to swim in? The kids are starting to ask? B:-) I guess I'm on the right track.
Let it drop to about 10 ppm
Thank You So Much Everyone, but especially you Waterbear, you practically held my hand the whole way.

my pleasure!

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Today it was even clearer.

FC=10
TC=10
CC=0

Ph=7.2

Vac'd and the pool stayed pretty clear tonight.

Looks like I'll finally have a weekend were I can enjoy the pool a little.

We've been lucky lately no 110*-115* but now I'm ready bring on the heat. B:-)

I'll still get the Salt test kit this weekend.

Again though thank you Everybody!

Alex