Cloudy Please help

[swimdaddy]

How do you know its metal staining and not dead algae? When you have an algae problem, it would be normal for some brown to accumulate in the bottom as it dies from the high FC levels.

[mrszaff]

it lifts with a vitiman c tablet
Pool is clear and stains are gone today. thanks , i will keep trying to maintain it, I will post numbers later

[FormerBromineUser]

If it lifts with vitamin C, it's iron. I'm glad the stains came up! The iron is now still in the pool, it's just suspended in the water.

Once you pass that overnight test, you can try using some cal-hypo added directly to the skimmer as your chlorine source occasionally. It may help remove some of the suspended iron onto your filter and then it will backwash out. The towel trick will help too. You may find that doing those two things will reduce the iron in the water and allow you to use less sequestrant down the road unless your "utility" refill water is high in iron.

[mrszaff]

good to know, I will get some today

[mrszaff]

my FC and CC are the same this morning as last night, I have not tried to get it back to shock level since I have slight metal stain in shallow end of liner. Pool is clear, steps are white, skimmer socks are yellow, sequestering agent is working. I think I need to add ph today.

FC 5 CC .5 or less, ph 7 alk 50 cya 35

[FormerBromineUser]

How is it going?

[mrszaff]

pool looks beautiful, I will keep you posted, thanks!