First time poster here but I ve gotten alot of good advice from these forums.
I'll try to keep a long story short. Opened my pool a little over a week ago. I was on the way to getting it clear (see pic). All my numbers were right in range. I decided to use yellow out (2lbs) along with the appropriate amount of liquid chlorine to speed along the process. Less than 48 hrs after the yellow out treatment there was extremely heavy rain over my house. Within a day or so the pool went from what you see in the first pic to literally the color of antifreeze! Now here's the thing, at first glance you would say algae bloom. Trouble is my FC is holding just fine and there is near 0 CC. I have a taylor k-2006 test kit and always take the readings precisely to the instructions:
I took a sample to the local pool store (just to compare numbers) their readings were
FC 2.95
TC 2.95
CC 0
PH 7.6
Hardness 57
Alk 108
CYA 59
Copper .1
Iron .1
Phosphate 434
This particular store had no idea about the color after I told them the story and did not have shock in stock so I went to another store to get that and related the story again. The people at both stores had never seen pool water that color and both reccomend I floc the pool and basically start over. I added a couple gallons of shock after I got home to see if the color would change due to killing off algae. Again 0 change in color and it's been 24 hours. FC holds just fine and 0 CC.
Anyone have a clue as to what I got myself into? I agree that I ve never seen a pool that color myself and I'm a bit perplexed. I have about 12 days to get this thing in shape before guests come to stay. Thanks for your help
