have a little metal what to do

[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