What type of fish can clean my pool?

Where are you going to put the fish after you want the pool back? I doubt algae eaters are going to do a job good enough for your standards. Plus, they poo too, so you’ll have to clean that out when you need your pool back. It’s not a very big pool, so just suck it up, arm yourself with a long cleaning brush, and clean it yourself.

Most pool chlorine is basically bleach with additives

I beg to differ… pool chlorine has WAY more available chlorine, and significantly less inert ingredients than bleach.

Okay thanks for the advice more advice would be great. Also some of the algae eaters eat poop and basically every other thing that would get in the pool haha. Also we don’t need the pool right now since its about to get cold and all ,,, I just wanted to experiment with some algae eaters and see how clean they could get the pool.

Fillet knows his stuff,, impressive!!!

LMAO! Fish will not do the job. You need to maintain the pool chemistry. If it were my pool, I’d shut the pump off for a few days and dump a gallon of bleach in (bleach is really bad for equipment for a few days until it oxidizes, but if the pump isn’t running, it won’t get to the equipment)…repeating if necessary. Once the algae is gone, then bring some water to a pool store and ask what you need to rebalance.

how will the fish live in chlorine?

Laundry bleach and pool chlorine basically do the same thing. They use chlorine to oxidise things you don’t want. Stains in the case or laundry detergent and bacteria, fungus, and pool stains in the case of pool chlorine.

Standard household bleach is sodium hypochlorite while pool shock is usually calcium hypochlorite. Calcium hypochlorite does have greater available chlorine than sodium hypochlorite.

You are right to call me on this because pool chlorine is much more concentrated than laundry bleach and not a reasonable substitute. I do know from experience that pool chlorine will bleach clothes. My wife is never amused when I ruin clothes while working on our pool.

janitor fish…we have here.. it varies in sizes