HELP with Green/Brown Water

[poolrookie]

Thanks, will let it run and backwash and vacuum in the morning! Kit is on the way, hopefully tomorrow, unless it's fedex, they never deliver on time.

[poolrookie]

Got up to blue water this morning, patience is a wonderful thing! Had some brown stuff on a couple spots on the ground (dust/silt/or whatever it is) try to vacuum these spots and it came right back through the sand filter, i thought the sand was supposed to collect this stuff....that is ridiculous...so all it did was mix it up and the pools pretty blue cloudy water, back to more of that dirty color... i guess blue and dirt make very light green...

should i vacuum this stuff out to waste?? after it settles again.. i would lose so much water though and have to add more of creek or well water, probably not a good thing.. hope my kit comes today so i can test the creek water to know if we can add it safely...

[PoolDoc]

Once you get your kit, check the pool water and the creek water.

But, what may work well for you is to add creek water SLOWLY via the skimmer, but with a couple of chlorine tabs in the skimmer. The combination of chlorine plus filtering may filter out most of the metals before it makes it to your pool.

[johnlanciloti]

ive been watching your thread close. Im having the same issue. no algae at all that has attached to the liner, numbers r all good, tried multiple products. waters still green! oh yeah i work at fed ex! lol.............and if its not getting there on time i can tell you its problably not because the driver is lazy they just expect the drivers to accomplish the impossible!

[poolrookie]

ive been watching your thread close. Im having the same issue. no algae at all that has attached to the liner, numbers r all good, tried multiple products. waters still green! oh yeah i work at fed ex! lol.............and if its not getting there on time i can tell you its problably not because the driver is lazy they just expect the drivers to accomplish the impossible!

Well i now have a "Slime Bag" i ordered from a slime bag website for 50 bucks. My pool has been clear and blue for a while now, but has had so many very small particles floating around that it has kept it cloudy and a had a green tint to it, due to the fine particles of brown floating around. When we shut off the pump, water would become very clear, and all the particles float to the bottom and when we tried to vacuum it comes right back through the sand filter and clouds the pool again. So now we vacuum with the slime bag connected to the output hose and vacuum about half the pool, then clean the bag, and vacuum the rest then clean the bag, hook up the filter to let it run and leave the bag on the outlet house. My water after 2 days is almost clear, i can see the bottom but has just a slight cloud, i think after one more day of vacuuming with the bag and cleaning it and letting my filter run it should be perfectly clear. Water just had so many particles that nothing would catch, but this bag catches up to 1 micron where sand i think only does like up to 4 or 5 microns. Jury is still out on the slime bag, but will let you know tomorrow, day 3 with it. So far its on its way to doing what it says, wished i would of went with the bigger one though, the smaller one gets full fast and once it gets full it starts leaking the brown smoke/silt/whatever all over the place, so you have to stop and clean. Bigger one would of been a lot better i think.
My numbers right NOW areWITH MY NEW TAYLOR K-2006) FROM AMATO IND.
cc 0
fc 5.2
ph 7.5
ta 130
cya 38
hardness 280

Didn't mean to knock fed ex, but here in eastern ky, they wait until they have 3 or 4 deliveries in the area before they waste the 4 bucks a gallon on gas, which is understandable, just hate it when you need something you have ordered.
IS THEIR A WAY TO CHECK METALS WITHOUT BUYING ANOTHER TYPE OF KIT?? OR DO I HAVE TO TAKE IT BACK TO THE PLACE THAT RAN THEM BEFORE? WOULD LIKE TO CHECK CREEK WATER, BUT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO CHECK METALS WOULDN'T DO ME ANY GOOD I DON'T THINK?

[aylad]

You can't test for metals with the K-2006. There are metal testing kits available, but they're very expensive. You'd probably do better to take the sample back to a pool store and let them test for it. Alternately, you might check and see if your local water department will test for metals.