Argggghhhh!!!

[Watermom]

Do NOT use a copper algaecide. You do NOT want copper in your pool. As Waterbear said above, it opens a whole new kettle of worms!

[no1ford]

too late-now what!!! I think I am going to drain and cry!

[waterbear]

No need to drain. What's done is done. You can live with the copper....or add a metal sequsterant to deactivte it. I personally would live with it. If you shock and the water gets greener it is the copper. You will need to add sequesternt then. A lot of times that doesn't happen. A lot of times it does.
Just keep tabs on it. It will help kill the algae.
If anyone gets green hair from the copper in the pool it is easy to fix....check out this thread!
http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=326

[no1ford]

Oh-thanks you. I was ready to drain!! I am blown away! I added three bottles of iron out and then the same guy gave me copper algecide for the cloudiness! So didn't he just give me my problem back! My blonde one did swim right after I added, but once she got out we washed her hair and it looks ok.

[waterbear]

You put in three bottles of metal remover and then added metal? I think they have pretty much neutralized each other and the only real effect is that the pool store got richer and you got poorer!
Sometimes I think that people who work in pool stores need to pass an intellegence test to show that they are not complete morons and idiots!

[no1ford]

my fault too!! Can you say DUH!! Ok-so maybe I added to much metal out-it got cloudy and then the copper will even it out!?? I hope!

[waterbear]

Your next step is to get your water tested for :
FC
TC
pH
Alk
CH
CYA
Copper
Iron
Seqesterant (not many places test for this so if they don't it's ok)
You do NOT want the testing done by strips but by liquid reagents (Taylor Technologies)or palstic vials of powdered reagents that the water is added to (LaMotte). Both of these are accurate if the testing is done right. The most important thing to have the pool store do is the metal testing if you have a drop based kit that you can test the other paramerters on. From there we can see what has happened and see where you need to go.

Test strips are NOT ok for this testing, either by you or the pool store!