My Screw UP = Foamy Mess

[lm8838]

I grabbed a bottle of algacide and threw it in my pool. UGH it was 50% which means I added 2x the amount. The result is one big foamy mess. Does anyone know what I can do to get rid of the foam?

[CarlD]

Lots and lots and lots of chlorine (use Bleach or LC). Keep it at shock levels. Run your filter 24/7, and, if you don't have them, get and use skimmer socks. I find I can use one for a month before I have to replace it, so that's about $5 for skimmer socks for the summer.

You can probably use your hand skimmer to lift the foam off as much as you can.

You learned the hard way why the ONLY algaecide we recommend in Polyquat 60%--it never foams. It's only side effect is to drop FC if you use a lot of it.

[waste]

By any chance do you have a salt pool? I've seen this a number of times using the ammonia based algaecides in a salt pool. Carl is right that using the polyquat does not produce this effect - it only took me 2 years to make the correlation, but polyquat is the only algaecide we add to our salt pools.