Water Mold

Getting rid of your water mold is never fun. But now you have the best information, instructions, and swimming pool maintenance tips for killing algae and mold.

This mold, sometimes called pink slime, has been showing up in pools and hot tubs for a long time. It is a naturally occurring "fungus" that can grow anywhere there's water or moisture.

It may look like small pieces of tissue floating around your pool or hot tub. Sometimes you may even see a "pink" color floating around with it.

Prevention Of Water Mold

Prevention is always preferred over treatment. Remember what your dad said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

By the time you notice any water mold or pink slime, chances are your hot tub or pool is infested. Like having roaches, you'll see 10, but there's 10,000 in your house. But to ease your mind a bit, it's not dangerous or poisonous, it just looks kind of bad.

Well, to lessen your chances of getting an outbreak, you may want to read on. Many people with hot tub troubleshooting questions will have this issue.

1. Clean and vigorously brush everything in the pool and hot tub, including the ladder, steps, sides, floor, and any rails on a weekly basis
2. Maintain the correct swimming pool water care
3. Give your pool and cleaning equipment a good sun bath. The sun is a natural oxidizer and will destroy bacteria.
4. Add an oxidizer into your skimmer to clean the pipes and filtration system
5. Or you could add an enzyme like SpaGuard Natural Enzyme or Natural Chemistry Spa Perfect. These enzymes actually "eat up" the problem.
6. Clean pool toys and floating devices
7. Clean your solar blanket
8. Drain and refill you spa or hot tub every 3-4 months
9. Allow your fill hose to run for 2-3 minutes before filling your spa
10. Run the pool filter in the pool 12 hours per day and hot tub 8 hours
11. Rinse and clean hoses, brushes, and swimming pool vacuums
12. Add oxidizing chemicals to the skimmers to removes anything in the lines and filters
13. Chemically clean the filters every 3-4 weeks
14. Get a good water testing kit. A Taylor Reagent DPD K-2006 works the best

Treatment Of Water Mold

If you experience these floating flakes of toilet paper, you need to take care of it quick, fast, and in a hurry.

1. Clean everything in your pool as stated above
2. Remove any parts that have or may have water mold and remove any mold floating around in adhering to any surface

Add the appropriate algaecide

3. Give your pool or hot tub a good triple dose of chlorine shock

Bring the pH, alkalinity, and hardness into line. Never add chlorine without first adjusting these three. Adjust your pH to 7.0-7.2, alkalinity to 85-100, and hardness to 150-250ppm.

But wait!! You've read on this site to keep your pH level at 7.6-7.8. What is the deal with 7.0-7.2? Well, glad you asked, and here it goes.

I suggest you use granular chlorine, a.k.a. Calcium Hypochlorite, to shock your pool. This kind of pool chlorine has a pH level of 12.

Now, anything over the pH level of 8.0 and you're only using about 25% of the chlorine, which means, you've lost 75% of the active swimming pool chlorine. When you add your pool chlorine, your pH will automatically go up, so get that pH down!! If you start the pH a bit lower, you're using more active chlorine than you would if your starting pH was a bit higher.

See, very simple.

1. Run the filter 24/7 or until the water is clear
2. Chemically clean the filter
3. Test the water after 4 days, or take it to your local pool shop for testing
4. Maintain good pool water chemistry and swimming pool care

With the proper hot tub maintenance and swimming pool care, you can have the hot tub and/or pool you deserve without any white water mold.

Yes it does take work, but doesn't everything that's worth having?

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