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I didn’t get pics from this year’s opening but we usually go from green to clean and swimming in 3 days, I’ll show pics from a few years ago. From green to cloudy white in just a few hours. The filter will not make the water non-green, so your filter being broken wasn’t helpful but isn’t the problem! You need chlorine for that. The filter will pull all the white dead algae out. We have 35k gallons and the longest part is filtering the dead white algae clouds out with a sand filter. Killing the algae and making it non-green should be about a day, maybe two! Grab your Taylor kit if you don’t have one, get the $90 ish dollar one (I’ll link it), so you can keep testing your chlorine over and over and adding more throughout the day. Chlorine doesn’t burn off in the dark but in early SLAM you’ll need to add frequently and probably don’t want to get up in the night to do it. Starting a SLAM in the morning and getting pretty far along by dark, and make sure you raise the chlorine at dusk and see if it holds over night is good. Then you can do your overnight chlorine loss test (OCLT) to be sure you’ve nuked the algae and can let it drift back down. Use the Pool Math app and this test kit https://a.co/d/0gy2eTJL
Taylor test kit