Sky Blue water - cloudy going on 4 weeks

[aylad]

You can force your test kit to test higher by taking one part pool water, mixed one part distilled water, mixing well, running the test, then multiplying your result x 2. If it still isn't reading high enough, use one part pool water and 2 parts distilled, test, then multiply x 3. (This is referred to around the forum as Carld's shotglass method! ). You'll lose a little accuracy with each dilution, but it'll get you in the ballpark.

If it was clear, and is now cloudy, Watermom's right, you need to shock the pool up to 15 ppm and keep it there until it clears and there's no overnight chlorine loss.

Janet

[LP Heaven]

Awesome - shot glasses and their contents are my specialty !

Will execute and report !

[Watermom]

Yep. What Janet said! I'm sure those couple of days where your cl dropped are the culprit. With a cya of 35, you have to keep the cl level between 3-6 ALL the time or it is an invitation to algae! Lotsa bleach and filtering 24/7 are what you need to do now to clear it.

I just modded your latest post in and got a chuckle from it!