biologically sourced metal

[CarlD]

I was shocked, but I added it to my "things that night work" list

the wife: "Think it'll work?"
Miracle Max: "It'll take a miracle!"

[Watermom]

Yeah, but I'd be like Purplegirl. I'd want my water to be pretty like everybody else's. Yeah, they can swim, but..... how disappointing to want a sparkling blue pool and have to be satisfied with green water.

Purplegirl, you're being a real trooper with your attitude about this. I'm afraid I wouldn't be handling it as well as you are. I would be totally and I mean TOTALLY bummed out.

Well, have fun swimming anyways!

[sturev]

Since your pool is only 5,000 gallons, you could probably get water delivered that wasn't green? That would probably only be temporary as you have to add water over time to compensate for splash out and evaperation... At least you'd have 'blue' water for a while...

I personally think the decorator water idea from Waterbear is a good one! Hey, it might even catch on and you could market/sell it

[waterbear]

You could also tell eveyone that your liner is chartreuse!

[purplegirl]

Watermom I AM totally bummed out but I'm starting to accept the situation and I'm crossing my fingers that it will eventually precipitate out. Pool Doc is right my kids don't care it's just me and my husband that are hung up on green water

From what I've read here, there is usually a solution to any pool problem and I feel so defeated that I can't fix my pool problem.

sturev I thought about ordering water but I didn't have much luck locating a company (I didn't try that hard to find one). It only costs me about $20 from the tap I can't even imagine what they charge to deliver. Plus one pool store told me (I know I shouldn't even listen to them) that shipped water comes from a well and I will have metal problems from that water as well. I don't know if that's true?

Marie, how much calcium are we talking here? I don't know anything about calcium, I have an Intex filter would adding calcium cloud the water or anything? Would there be any negatives to trying calcium? I'm willing to try anything as long as it doesn't give me another problem.

BTW I think I might be having a problem with my FC, I will post numbers tomorrow morning.

[mbar]

Not much calcium. I put enough in my pool to take it to about 125 to 150 ppms when the water turned blue. I have no explanation, I just watched it do it. The water was tinged a slight green and I thought I was going to do the stain treatment so I wasn't too worried about it. Five minutes after putting the calcium in the water turned blue. I hesitated to say anything about it cause it just may have been a fluke, but I thought I would mention it because you really hate your water being green As Kermit would say "It's not easy being green"

[PoolDoc]

Marie, purplegirl, be sure to email or PM me if the calcium helps. [ poolforum AT gmail DOT com ] I'd like to know, and I'll be sure to pass it on to Richard (Chem Geek).

Of course, if it does work, it will probably keep him up at night, till he can think of a possible analytical explanation for 'why' and 'how'. Me, not quite so much, but I'd still like to know.

PoolDoc

[mbar]

Me too! So much of what I learned about getting rid of stains came from you and by trial and error. I don't know much about chemistry, so I don't have great explanations for how or why some of the chemicals work, but I am keeping track of what works together. The problem is sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't, because the combination of what is in the water is always different. I would really be anxious to see if calcium works for purplegirl - that is why this forum is so great, we all learn from each other

[Watermom]

BTW Marie, glad to have you back. We missed you while you were gone. Hope you had a great vacation!

[purplegirl]

My calcium was at 80ppm so I added 6lbs. which would bring it up to 180ppm. I put it in about 10 minutes ago and nothing so far. I think my green pool is hopeless

Every morning I wake up and there is rust dust on the bottom of the pool, I guess EVENTUALLY it will settle out. I was just hoping there was something I could do to turn the iron to rust QUICKER!

If there are any changes I will post.