Quote Originally Posted by aylad View Post
I was just curious about why you added the metals treatment--usually if you're not using well water, metals aren't an issue. I think the calculator you're looking for is thepoolcalculator.com, which Chem-Geek helped to create.
The friend that I got the pool from the same village water supply as I did. His wife has blonde hair as does mine. She complained about green hair until he used a metal remover. Need I say more? lol After using the metal remover, there was a lot of debris on the pool bottom. Would that indicate that there were indeed a lot of metals in the water or are there other minerals, etc that are precipitated with the use of a metal remover?

This AM I checked the chlorine with strips again (K-2006 ordered). Total chlorine was at 3.0 and free chlorine was at 1.0. I seem to remember reading that if the TC is higher than the FC, it's time to shock. Is that true? I also mentioned that I was floating a 3" tri-chlor tab as well. Is that okay/necessary or not?

I'm sorry for all the questions, but it seems the more I read, the more I confuse myself. I'm going to stick to this forum and the BBB method if possible.