? about SWG

[KPROMERO]

had order my kit during the week from ben. Waiting for it to come in. This is not a mustard look but a pale green look to water. Everything was fine after installing swg but a week later green water.Can i just put on super chlorinate? I also thought that a swg would kill algae and i would not have to worry about it.

[duraleigh]

had order my kit during the week from ben. Waiting for it to come in. This is not a mustard look but a pale green look to water. Everything was fine after installing swg but a week later green water.Can i just put on super chlorinate? Thanks for info also.

You'll love the kit.

All the SWG guys will tell you not to shock with the SWG....puts too much demand on it, it can't respond quickly enough, and it will wear out your cell quickly.

Get the bleach.

[KPROMERO]

Thanks for info. will give it a shot and let ya know. Sucks that one week later i have green tint to water after SWG installed. If i have some leftover chlorine can i use that up since i will not be needing anymore ?

[duraleigh]

Thanks for info. will give it a shot and let ya know. Sucks that one week later i have green tint to water after SWG installed. If i have some leftover chlorine can i use that up since i will not be needing anymore ?

Hi, "KP"
What kind of Cl do you have? Pucks?......NO!

Let us know what you have!

[KPROMERO]

No pucks. It is called Regal with 68% calcium hypochlorite and 38% other ingrediants.

[duraleigh]

Yep, It's Great for Shock

put in 4.5 lbs...That should bring your Cl to 25ppm.

Now you need to keep it there. I would test again tonight and add 1 lb for every 5ppm you need to raise your Cl to get it back to 25ppm.

If you run out of Cal Hypo, use 1.5 gallons of 6% Clorox to raise your pool 5ppm.

[Mark_WATERMAID]

Hi KP

Are you sure that it is mustard algae? With the numbers that you have posted, everything should be good. I personally dont like your CYA at 100 we tell everyone to run at half of that. There have been some great posts on high CYA and Ben has talked about it as well. If it is too high, you need to run higher Chlorine levels. As far as the green pool goes, if you have confirmed that it is algae then that is great. I just had a pool a few weeks ago with almost the same numbers (except CYA) and it was a pretty green colour as well. It was also very clear except for the colour and it turned out that they had used cheap water softener salt to start their pool. I push the use of water softener salt but it has to be the clean white pellet kind not the stuff with pink and brown lumps. In the end, I told them to leave everything alone and the colour went away after about a week of filtering. Check your salt and make sure that it is the right stuff. If it is, the other advice given here is great.

Mark Manning
Watermaid Canada
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