Pool green 15,000 gallons

[biggun]

As a newbie with no kit and having and battling a pool for two years I have decided to fight back. I have well water with metals. I have a 15000 gallon blue haven pool 5 years old with plaster. It was unkept for a year and drained and brought up last year. I battled with it all summer and it went to green over the winter until i could get a new pump. In the past two months I have put in a ton of chemicals and wasted hundreds of dollars to still have a green pool that wont hold chlorine. I have flocced the pool at their recommendation but it was still green and so i vacuumed it to waste what I could and drained the water down to the jets. Then I filled with well water. It is now a clearer green and will now hopefully hold chlorine. I bought clorox and borax and mule team. I need to get polyquat to be ready. I put metal magic a quart in the pool and hopeully can get it to hold chlorine and get rid of the green. I am relying on the stores water tests until I can order my own set. What should be my next step? I was going to have the metals tested and if acceptable levels add clorox. Is this right? I have a big cartridge filter a 1.5 horse pump and a 15,000 gallon gunite pool. thanks

[aylad]

Get a good kit--the K-2006, to begin with. Until it gets here, see if you can get your hands on the hth 6-way kit that some WalMarts sell, run a set of tests on your water, and post them back here. Keep the chlorine in the 3- 5 ppm range using bleach while you get a water analysis on your well water. You can go ahead and add a dose of Polyquat to help control algae, but you need to make sure it doesn't completely deplete your chlorine.

Is your water green and cloudy, or green and clear? To help us help you better, could you please take a few seconds and fill this short form out with info about your pool, so we don't waste a lot of time asking basic questions back and forth?
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[biggun]

I thought I shouldnt add anything until the metal magic had been in there 12 hours.

[uofafan]

Mine was green and now is cloudy and blue.

[PoolDoc]

Membership upgraded. -ben

(there are some stickies in the "Metals" section of the forum -- where I'm moving your thread -- that may help.)

[PoolDoc]

Another one. Darn. Now your thread is moved where it should be, so you can post again!

[NorthEast]

I thought I shouldnt add anything until the metal magic had been in there 12 hours.

This is what my pool water looks like. I have no kit yet, so I went to the Dollar store and stocked up on 8 gallons of 6% bleach. Dumped 2 in at dusk and can't wait to see what happens.