Water Mold

By the time you notice any 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. It's not dangerous or poisonous, it just looks kind of bad.

Microscopic Picture

Prevention

Prevention is always preferred over treatment.

Beautiful & Clean Hot Tub

To decrease your chances of getting mold and water damage, you'll want to read on.

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, Natural Chemistry Spa Perfect, or Baqua Spa chemicals. These enzymes actually "eat up" the problem for a great chemical help.
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. Invest in a mold test kit if you have continuous outbreaks

and

15. Get a good water testing kit.

FAS-DPD K-2006 Taylor Pool Water Testing Kit

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.

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

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 chlorine, your pH will automatically go up, so you need to get the pH down. f you start the pH a bit lower, you're using more active chlorine than you would if your starting pH was a bit higher.

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, you can have the hot tub you deserve without any white water mold.

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



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