Shocking your pool and adding an algaecide to the water are two ways to get rid of the sickly green color caused by algae growth, but you shouldn’t do these things at the same time. Algaecide and clarifier should not be combined in the same bottle.

When should Pool Clarifiers be Used? Pool Clarifiers are not meant to be used all season long, but are quite helpful at pool opening, after an algae bloom, or battles with cloudy pool water. Follow label directions, but most pools can be retreated after 5-7 days, with a lower dosage than initially used.

A clarifier requires less work and less water but can take to two to three days to achieve the results you are looking for.

Clarifier is a lot slower to work than flocculant and usually takes several days to clear up a pool. You’ll need to continuously filter your pool for 24-48 hours after using clarifier and then filter 8-10 hrs per day for several days – but that’s about the only work you’ll need to do.

How to Make Your Pool Crystal Clear Again

1. Keep Up with pH and Chlorine Levels. Do you have a water testing device in your supply kit?
2. Run That Filter. It’s recommended that you run your filter for 8 to 10 hours a day when using your pool.
3. Skim, Skim, Skim.
4. Shock the Pool Once a Week.

1) What is the difference between chlorine and shock? Shock is chlorine, in a high dose, meant to shock your pool and raise the chlorine level quickly. Chlorine tabs (placed in a chlorinator, floater, or skimmer basket) maintain a chlorine residual in the water. You do need to use both tabs and shock.

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It says to shock it once a week. And 4. Add algae gaurd 60 every 3-5 days to prevent algae. Also add clarifier 4-12 hrs after above steps, once a week to help get rid of algae and organic debris.

ADD POOL CLARIFIER If your water is still green, wait another 24 hours and redo the steps from Days 1 and 2. Now is the time to add Pool Clarifier and let it circulate for 12 hours.

To get rid of all the gross and dangerous crud in your cloudy pool water, shock your pool. This mega-dose of chlorine (or non-chlorine shock for pools that use other sanitizers) will eliminate cloudiness caused by bacteria, organic contaminants, and algae.

You can even get it mixed in with chlorine tablets or sticks, called trichlor, and in chlorine shock, called dichlor. These combination products are referred to as stabilized chlorine because the stabilizer is mixed right in with the sanitizer, saving you the trouble of measuring and adding them separately.

If you add the stabilizer first, then the chlorine shock you add will not break down quite as quickly in sunlight, but will also be less effective.

Open your pool under normal procedures, and let the filter run with its normal amount of chemicals. When all the other chemicals, such as chlorine. pH and alkalinity, are balanced, add the chlorine stabilizer. Add the stabilizer only after the filter has been backwashed to ensure it is cycled through a clean filter.

How to add stabilizer to your pool. Most manufacturers say to add your CYA to a bucket of warm water first and others say you can pour it directly into the pool.

The only way to lower CH levels is to partially drain and refill your pool water. As such, remember to keep CH levels between 200 and 400 ppm all the time. Other chemical imbalances: High levels of accumulated phosphate and bromine and imbalanced stabilizers, such as cyanuric acid (CYA) might also cause cloudiness.

Baking soda, also known as sodium bicarbonate is naturally alkaline, with a pH of 8. When you add baking soda to your pool water, you will raise both the pH and the alkalinity, improving stability and clarity.

To achieve the recommended amount of 30 ppm, add one pound of CYA stabilizer per 4,000 gallons of water. The chemical is a strong acid so wearing gloves and goggles when preparing the solution is well-advised. Once the required amount of stabilizer has been calculated, mix it in a five-gallon bucket of warm water.

If it is too low, you would add an alkaline material, typically sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate. They will usually be labeled pH up or increaser and ph down or decreaser. Stabilizer – if it is too low, you add cyanuric acid.

A pool with a stabilizer level of over 70 ppm runs the potential of being over stabilized. Too much stabilizer can begin to lock the chlorine in your pool (chlorine lock) and render it useless. There is no exact level of stabilizer that guarantees chlorine lock.

For every 1 ppm of chlorine you add with pucks, you add 0.6 ppm of CYA.

If you need to raise your cyanuric acid level, you simply pour the granular white powder directly into the pool, at a rate of about 1 lb. per 10,000 gallons, to raise it about 10 ppm.

It is easy to tell if you need more chlorine pucks in your skimmer basket. Since they dissolve, once they have disappeared just add more. Chlorine pucks also allow you to manually control how much chlorine is in your pool’s water. It is usually 1 chlorine puck for every 5,000 gallons of water.

Sunlight breaks down free chlorine Cyanuric acid is a double-edged sword, but is necessary for most outdoor pools. Its main benefit–perhaps its only benefit–is it protects chlorine from UV degradation. Chlorine that is bound to CYA is called isocyanurate, and it will show up on a free chlorine test kit.

Cyanuric acid is also know as Stabilizer, it helps the chlorine stay in your water. When you “shock” continuously what you’re doing is your actually increasing the Cyanuric acid levels stedaly but the chlorine levels go up fight off what they need to then they come right back down.

The amount of cyanuric acid to be added, and whether it should be used in indoor pools are questions on which many pool and aquatics experts don’t agree. Some professionals say that since indoor pools are not directly exposed to the sun’s rays, use of cyanuric acid is not recommended.

What happens when CYA in a pool is too high? – CYA Levels exceeding a threshold of 70 parts-per-million of cyanuric acid can reduce the effectiveness of the chlorine in a pool. The amount of time it takes to kill bacteria lengthens as the concentration of CYA increases.

CYA Removal Kit efficiently removes cyanuric acid from pool water. This revolutionary two-part system works without the need to drain or dilute water from a pool. CYA Removal Kit takes cyanuric acid (also known as CYA, stabilizer or conditioner) out of pool water.

2. Dichloroisocyanuric Acid: Also known as “dichlor,” this is another type of chlorine shock. Dichlor contains both chlorine and cyanuric acid and will, over time, raise your cyanuric acid levels.

Most cyanuric acid reducers won’t work as effectively in an over-chlorinated swimming pool. Check the chlorine level in your pool with a water test kit or test strip. If the chlorine levels are above 5.0 ppm, leave the pool exposed to sunlight or use a chlorine neutralizer to lower it.