My pool water turned green, how do I clear it up?
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chlorine
urine works fine
use chlorine
Use pool chemicals such as chlorine and pool shock.
Its caused by algae, from too much light and nutrients in the water. Try to shade at least half of the pool, otherwise you can get some chemical treatment which caused the algae to clump and fall to the bottom. Thats what it says on the label anyway, but when I used it it just came back again after a couple of days. I'm now trying barley straw in the bottom of the pond which is supposed to do the trick.
There is something called a Shock Treatment. It is different chemicals that literally shock the water to adjust it back to normal levels/color. It also rids algae and other things. You should try it, I use it on occasions and it works great. You can get it at any Walmart or Myjers...or any place that carries pool supplies.
catch the person who is turning it green first
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chlorine and a good pool boy\girl normally does a good job.
stop peeing in it
you can use chlorine and PhD they will clear the pool
Pool chemicals and chlorine.
first drain all the water, then wash out all the green fungus using chlorine based bleaching powder, then full the pool again.
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you can buy the sterilizing tablets for pools, put more than one to keep it clean and smelling nice and color free.
Shock it first then make sure your chlorine level is up.
Drain the water and make sure that the tiles are clean - at times certain organisms inhabit the pool waters if they stay stagnant for days and not cleaned. If you are sure though, that the pool is clean, you can use chlorine. Certain chemicals in the water can discolorate it.
Takes 3 things to keep a pool beautiful and blue:
Circulation
Filtration
Proper water chemistry.
Run the filter pump continuously while trying to clear the water. Keep the filter cleaned/backwashed. Check and adjust chemicals. Total alkalinity and pH first, then "nuke" the pool with granular chlorine. You should see a noticeable difference shortly. BEWARE: make sure the "shock" you are getting has chlorine in it! Not all of them do. That 5-in-1 junk, for example, contains NO chlorine. Might just as well throw a $5.00 bill in the pool. Same result. Remember that you are fighting- daily- to overcome nature. Give mother nature a shot and she will have algae and tadpoles abounding in short order.
In addition to chlorine/shock and continuous filtration, I use a concentrated algaecide. It will say R60 on the bottle. I use it liberally to get rid of algae, and then sparingly each week as preventive maintenance.
An important note about filtration, though. If you have a DE filter, you want to make sure that you are bumping/backwashing it frequently. If not, the algae will survive in the filter - making it the source of any algal outbreaks.