Talking Pools Podcast
Talking Pools Podcast
Rudy Stankowitz
Algae & Chemical Truths: Hard Lessons from the Western Show to BioLab
38 minutes Posted Jan 23, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Pool Pros text questions here In this in-depth episode of the Talking Pools Podcast, host Rudy Stankowitz delivers a deep technical discussion on one of the most misunderstood subjects in modern pool care: algae misidentification and the biocidal mechanisms of metals. Drawing on eight years of dedicated cyanobacteria research, Rudy breaks down the fundamental differences between cyanobacteria (commonly mislabeled as black algae), diatoms (often called mustard algae), and true green algae, exp...