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    Default Re: Just chlorinating is NOT working.

    I would start with a single dose of 20 ppm, not 75 ppm. That's about 5 gallons of PLAIN 6% household bleach. You cannot keep using that trichlor + goop blend. True trichlor is 90% or more available chlorine. What every your CYA was BEFORE you added the trichlor, it's a lot more now.

    Use bleach, and keep working up your chlorine level till it dies.

    One HUGE caution: metals can turn a pool green. Slimey walls on a vinyl pool = algae. No slime? It might be something else. If you have orange iron dust on the bottom of the pool, it can make your water look green.

    Check your filter: dead algae is tan; live algae is green; iron is orange or orange brown. If you have iron, instead of algae, you do NOT need huge chlorine doses.

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    Ok so I'm pretty sure it's the metal. I have very bad rust stains in my house from our water due to a high iron content. When i do backwash my filter it is green at first but turns a brown color. When i vacuum my pool i get a light green color when i hit the light spots but when i go over the heavy spots its very dark almost brown. The sides are not slimy at all, but the bottom can fell a little but more gritty than slimy. When i cleaned it today it looked as if the water was brown coming out of my out flow. I've heard that metal does not get trapped in a filter. What can i us to get rid of it???

    Do the CuLator metal removers work or should I use one of the liquid metal removers?
    24' round 14.5K gal AG vinyl pool; bleach 6%; SwimPro High-Rate Sand Filter Model# SW236T sand filter; Century Pool / Jetted Tub Motor HP 1.0 pump; hrs; Chlorine/Ph from Walmart right now. Will be ordering the one suggested shortly though.; ground water; summer: none; winter: vinyl / water bags; ; PF:8.3

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