Ok. If you're going to do this, you're going to have to put on your 'big girl pants', and suck it up: dealing with badly contaminated water, in a pool with marginal filtration (like an Intex) is HARD, especially for someone completely new to pools. Learning to do this will feel like going back to school to take a chemistry class, and it's going to cost you a couple hundred dollars. Next year, it won't seem nearly as hard, but next year is 11 months away!
If you're not up for this, you might as well drain the pool, wash it out, and sell it or give it away. We're buried alive trying to help people here on the Forum, and to be frank, I don't want to spend a bunch of time with you, only to have you bail out 1/2 way through. So please, for both my sake and yours, if you're not prepared to deal with this, give up now!
Albert Einstein apparently used to say that, when he was teaching, he "made things as simple as possible, but no simpler"! That's what I'll do: make it as easy as possible, but I won't try to sell you bogus simple solutions that don't work.
You'll need to start over . . . after you get ready to deal with the metals. Cleaning up well water like your is hard on an inground pool with good filtration and circulation; it's very difficult on Intex pools with marginal filtration and circulation. Adding in the Green to Blue (cal hypo + magnesium sulfate) just complicates things.
1. Plan to drain and refill.
2. Read the Super Simple Recipe which will get you started on understanding what's needed on a pool filled with good water: http://pool9.net/ssr/
3. *IF* you have cartridge filters, order Filbur or Intex replacement cartridges. You'll need 2 sets. If you have another form of filter, tell me EXACTLY which filter you have.
4. Do the metals bucket test on fresh water from the well, to see if the iron will 'drop' or settle to the bottom of the pool. That would be the best way to get it out, if it will. http://pool9.net/bucket-metal/
5. Tell me EXACTLY what sort of vacuuming or cleaning gear you have. You will need to be able to siphon-vacuum in order to remove the metal -- and you'll need the gear to do it with.
Best wishes
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