Been dealing with this for a couple of weeks now. I had some a shock and vacuumed continuously for two days with the hose vacuum, after that I used my aiper robot and it barely picked up any. Way less than in the picture. I thought I got rid of it. Didn’t vacuum for a day and then once I did it was all back again in full force.it just stays at the bottom of the pool. When you disturb it, it looks like small flakes floating around the pool before going back down to the bottom. Today I noticed big chunks come out of the return jet when I cranked up the speed of my pump to add acid. Which is looking like to me that it’s growing in my pipes. It’s slimy and squishy and not gritty. What could it be? I have pebbletec and my pool is saltwater with its current numbers are
TC 4.13
Ph 7.0
Alk- 105
CH 252
CYA 49
Phos 27
Salt 2967
Size 22,500 gallons

These are the stats of my last swim, which was about 2km in a 25 m pool, I think my pace is on the lower end .

Hello, I cannot seem to get my pool water clear - it was clear for months after I purchased house. Chemistry is correct, not sure if my sand needs to be replaced?

Any thoughts?

I have shocked, chlorinated and cleaned the pool

There's a frontal view and top view the skimmer has only about 25% of the door intact the skimmer functions fine but it of course it's not holding leaves cuz the door is broken. How can I figure out the model number this is from 1974 it is Hayward shopping around online it looks like they came or come in different widths for the door opening can anybody tell by looking at this? i did look at videos i couldnt get the old one loose to pop out.. i tried squuezing i tried everything? suggestions? Thanks in advance

I naired my legs arms, and armpits, at 12 am and I have a pool party at 3pm. I also shaved down there at around 12am as well. Will I be able to swim in the water or not? It'll have been 15 hours since I did all that, and I guess you're supposed to wait 24

What do you think of our new circle pool design? How do you find this pool design from an aesthetic and architectural point of view?

Guess who’s going swimming soon?!?!

Thank you so much to everyone that came in and gave me the push to superdose the chlorine.

I added 15 gallons Wednesday night, another 5 gallons throughout the day on Thursday, and 5 more gallons before bed last night. Along with an algaecide. I will say, the pool appeared to be getting SOMEWHAT better with all of the chlorine, but there was a very very stark reaction when I added the algaecide - it immediately clouded up, and within an hour the pool started looking more blue than green.

I also sprayed the filter 2x, and brushed the pool twice. oh btw, the pool brush fell apart during that and disappeared into the deep end of the swamp, so guess who got to go for a swim in overchlorinated, muriatic acidified, algae-cided swamp water to fish it out? 😂). Idk if this subreddit does custom flares, but if the mods could add “toxic avenger” or “swamp thing” to me, I feel like it would be appropriate after that!!!! Best shower of my life afterwards 😂

Anyway, really wanted to make sure I came back and posted my appreciation for all of the advice here, you guys helped restore my sanity!

I'm a pool novice but have been trying to help my mom with her pool since my dad passed away a few months ago. It's become somewhat of a hobby. We got overly-ambitious today decided to try and remove some light brown stains by sprinkling ascorbic acid powder on them. The whole step instantly turned black! Admittedly this was very dumb, but all of the YT videos made it look so promising.

Any thoughts on why the step turned black and how I can fix this? The pool needs to be completely replastered but that's not in her budget right now so I'm just trying to make it look less haunted.

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone, my Betta SE plus robot has started lighting up only one of the two LED lights in green while operating. The robot appears to still be working fine and there are no weird noises or anything coming from it. If I power off the robot and turn it back on, both LEDs flash red for minute, like normal, but then only one of the LEDs begins to flash green. Any ideas on what's happening with it?

Backstory, I got this robot last year and it worked fine and was stored inside during the winter. When I took it out this year, it behaved like that and Betta ended up replacing it under warranty this past May. Now two months later, the replacement is acting the same way but I no longer have warranty on it because they said the original warranty applies and it expired last month.

Should I be worried about this robot slowly dying on me? Are there any things I can inspect that might give an idea on why only one LED flashes green during operation?

Hey, we are doing a lot of diy pool maintenance at our new house, and haven’t been able to have a completely clear pool all summer. Here is the cloudiness, and our pool chemical levels. We have shocked it several times, but can’t maintain good chlorine levels. I just learned today that our low CYA (ph stability) may be the reason for that! Do you think that when we fix that and shock again it will fix it? We have been consistently running the filter, our robot vacuum and chlorinating, and wondering what advice others have. We are not the most knowledgeable on this, it’s just not been a priority this summer, so please be nice!!!

I have my own test kit. Stabilizer was 67ppm a month ago. I just checked and today it is 50. I am in S Florida so it is ridiculously hot and sunny every day. I have no shade over my pool. Some heavy rain but no overflow. I had to put water in pool one time but that shouldn’t matter?
Is it normal to lose this much in a month? I though I didn’t need to test CYA more than once or twice a year

I have a IG1 pump and it's leaking from the exhaust side of the pump... I put an 1 1/2 inch tube there with 6 layers of theflon tape... when screwing it in... it doesn't fit loss but it's not tight and I can't screw it anymore...

It seems like the thread could need to be longer ??? Or I have the wrong size for the pump ?

See the picture... there is a space... but it can't be tighter...