{"id":23,"date":"2009-03-04T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-06-20T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T00:59:17","slug":"did-you-know-there-are-21000-known-species-of-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/did-you-know-there-are-21000-known-species-of-algae\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know There Are 21,000 Known Species of\u00a0Algae?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24\" title=\"chemicalschlor\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/winterizingchemicalschlor.jpg?resize=300%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fight Algae\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/winterizingchemicalschlor.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/winterizingchemicalschlor.jpg?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:\u00a0 What is Algae?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Microscopic aquatic plant life that contain chlorophyll. Algae are nourished by carbon dioxide (C02) and use sunlight to carry out photosynthesis. It is introduced by rain or wind and grows in colonies producing nuisance masses. Algae are not disease-causing, but can harbor bacteria, create a high chlorine demand, and it is slippery. There are 21,000 known species of algae. The most common pool types are black, blue-green, green and mustard (yellow or brown). Pink or red-colored algae-like organisms exist but are bacteria and not algae. Maintaining<a title=\"Algaecides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/chemicals\/Pool-Algaecides.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> proper sanitizer levels,<\/a> brushing and <a title=\"algaecides\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/chemicals\/Pool-Algaecides.htm\" target=\"_blank\">super-chlorination <\/a>will help prevent its occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Question:\u00a0 What is Algae? &nbsp; Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Microscopic aquatic plant life that contain chlorophyll. Algae are nourished by carbon dioxide (C02) and use sunlight to carry out photosynthesis. It is introduced by rain or wind and grows in colonies producing nuisance masses. Algae are not disease-causing, but can harbor bacteria, create a high chlorine demand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-and-spa-chemicals","category-pool-and-spa-maintenance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}