have a little metal what to do

[gone01]

hey everyone

have a 30,000 gallon inground pool here are my readings

fac - 0
(Free available chlorine)
tac - 1
(Total Available chlorine)
total bromine - 1
ph - 7.2
alk - 80
cya - 40
calcium - 250
copper/iron - .15
phosphates - 100

the pool guy at leslies said i need 9 pounds of chlor brite and 3 bottles of metal free
I do have a well system that i fill the pool with
Thanks for the help!!

[aylad]

Hi, and welcome to the forum!!

Not sure what chlor brite is, but if it's a clarifier, don't waste your money. Do you have signs of metal in the pool? Green staining anywhere? ARe you running your water through any type of filter before putting it in the pool?

If your pool water does contain copper, then your options are to either run it over a high chlorine source just before a filter, so it will fall out and stain the filter instead of your pool (and blonde hair and fingernails), or use the metal free, which does keep the copper in suspension so it doesn't fall out and stain anything. If you choose to use the metal sequestrant, you'll need to keep your chlorine on the lower end of the recommended range (for a CYA of 40, the range is 3-6 ppm chlorine), and the pH on the low end, which yours already is. And you'll need to add more of it when refilling with fresh water or if you see signs of staining.

Also--assuming you haven't added anything with bromine in it, yours is a chlorine pool--ignore the bromine reading.

Janet

[gone01]

thanks for the reply

i do not have a filter for the well water going into the pool but there is a greenish tint to the water.

A high dose of chlorine will take car of this???

And no bromine was added

[aylad]

Is the water clear with greenish tint, or cloudy?

If the greenish tint is from the copper,it will be clear water with greenish tint. In that case, you're either going to have to devise a way to filter out the copper, or just live with it, by using a metal sequestrant. You can read more of the posts in the "metals" section of the forum to get an idea of what you're dealing with. If the greenish tint is from the copper, then a high dose of chlorine is going to make it stain your pool green. Again, using the metal sequestrant should take care of it if the copper is causing it.

If the greenish tint is from algae, then you'll need to shock the pool (high dose of chlorine) to get rid of it. If the pool walls and floor are slippery feeling, or if you test your chlorine at night and again first thing in the morning before the sun is on the pool and you find that you've lost more than 1 ppm of chlorine during that time, it's probably algae.

Janet

[gone01]

Put chlorine in the water now its a blue color but a little cloudy, any suggestions???

[aylad]

Run your filter....the chlorine will kill algae in the water, but it's the filter that will remove it. Keep the filter running, keep adequate levels of chlorine in the pool (3-6 ppm with your stabilizer level) and you should be fine. Once the filter gets all the dead algae out of the pool, you should see it clear up.

Janet

[PoolDoc]

Just to emphasize -- keep running your filter. Not sure if you have a timer (they are not as common on the East Coast, as on the West Coast) but during cleanup, from either metals or algae, your pump / filter should be on 24/7.

Ben