Forum: Dealing with Stains & Metals, . . . and 'Minerals' & 'Ions',

I chlorinated my new pool after filling it up and it turned metal green. I was given metal remover by the pool store which i used. Yesterday I used a...

I am preparing to start installing my AGP as may know if you saw my first post, but here is another question. I am on well water so I will have a...

Can you comment on products that chealate metals, like edta based materials vs products that sequester and remove metals with filtration?

I just added calcium cloride to my pool and it turned green over night. I know it is not algae because the clorine level had been high for a couple...

Hi, first wanted to say thank you for providing such a great forum! I bought a home with an inground pool last year. I took it over in August so I...

We're dealing with our yearly battle to get the water from green to clear. Put in three bottles of Mineral Magnet last night and ran the filter all...

I have stains on the bottom and sides of my pool and on the advice of PoolDoc I dropped a vitamin C tablet on one of the stains. The tablet removed...

Hi - I wanted to share that I just used vitamin c pills from CVS to succesfully remove rust stains from my pebble sheen plaster in spa. The rust was...

I am getting ready to try this on a pool here. Are you switching to cal hypo after Ph is back up to try to get the metals to come out of solution in...

I contacted them for free samples, or perform a test on a pool and document it. I was trying to contact Ben regarding this or someone that may guide...

Fiberglass pool, about 10,000 gallon chlorine pool. I think some small rocks got in the pool and left rust stains, not sure how to get them out....

I opened pool, vacuumed, and added mineral magnet, because that's what the 'guy' said at the pool place. However, after adding I read on bottle not...

I had a gunite/marcite pool finished last October. The pool was filled with two truckloads (18,000 gal) of city water as we are on a well. I did add...

Need some advice! I've been dealing with stains for the last 3 years from having to fill my pool with well water. The ascorbic acid routing...

This is the 3rd year opening our pool and haven't had any problems until now. Although I suppose we've done good to make it to the 3rd year with...

Hello, all! I'm a second year pool owner (20 yr old 20'x40' gunite) that got reasonably up to speed last year by poring over this amazing forum. I...

Hi All, I have some blue stains in my swim outs after opening the pool last weekend. My chlorine tests show no algae present so I am thinking...

Hi All, Hoping someone can help. Just opened my pool yesterday and the water was clear. I did notice some stains on the bottom liner only so I...

Hey.. I am a member and mod on a few other forums that are specific to my interest. My name is Bryan I am barely married. And have two kids. ...

After reading the sticky several times I decided to try the ascorbic acid treatment to remove some light staining that I had around the edges of my...

I have an 18 x 36 in ground pool and I,have been on Caribbean clear copper system for about 4 years.My question is what do you think about the copper...

My fiberglass pool was all brown. I managed to remove all the stains with iron eraser. I have read many posts on this forum and have taken lots of...

I haves worked with chlorine in fiberglass pool for 20 years, works well, at parents home. Put in above ground vinyl liner pool at my home last...

Accidently drained my pool this year. Now looking at refililng 35K gallon gunite pool with well water. Water runs through softener but, still...

Last year I filled the pool, added chemicals got brown water and had a rough summer and a lot of money. I think we had a 4 page discussion about all...

Don't have a posting just wanted to see what people had to say about Pool Frog. If I can get access for that I would appreciate it.

I opened my pool last weekend and proceeded to turn my nice blue water into a brown mess when I added my Walmart bleach. I have never had this...

Just purchased a house in Vegas that has a 7500 gal fiberglass Renaissance pool. The house was a foreclosure and the pool water got very low and...

I tried the ascorbic acid treatment and it took a few days (be patient) and did lift some of the stains, but not enough for my liking. So, I'm going...

I used the manual filtration method for removing iron from my pool. However, now I have stains around water line. My water is still light green, and...