Cloudy Pool Water

by Gerald Mattingly
(Joshua tx)

My ph was a little over 8.6, the way I understood it, was to add hth minus to the pool. It recommended 48 oz's to a 5000 gallon pool, so I did. Now my pool is cloudy. I ran the pool put chlorine tablets in and later hth plus and it is still cloudy 24 hours later. What can I do? Did I do an over kill and have to drain and start from scratch or leave it alone and go swimming, it will take care of it self.


Hi. I would keep working to balance the PH. That’s pretty important. I would also let the filter run 24/7 until the water is clear again. The other thing I would do is to add a bag of vinyl shock to the pool.