Rain caused cloudy water

[mbar]

No, I wouldn't be concerned yet - the reason your water is cloudy is that it is getting rid of the results of the stain treatment - that is why it is hard to keep your chlorine in the water. Just make sure you keep chlorine in the water, and leave your ph where it is. This will help keep stains from coming back as you raise your chlorine levels. Continue to raise your chlorine level slowly, this way you can see if any stain is starting to come back - if it does, add a little more sequesterer. If you have a sand or DE filter, you can put a thrichlor puck in the skimmer, which will help to let any metal that is left in the water stain onto the filter instead of the pool. DO NOT do this if you have a cartridge filter. Keep the filter running 24/7, and raise the chlorine only up to 5 for now. Don't shock for at least a week. You are not fighting algae, you are fighting the stuff that's left from the stain treatment.

[MrSparkle]

Maybe the water is cloudy as a result of the stain treatment. The water clouded after adding Super Sequa Sol but it cleared up in 24 hours. At that point I started to slowly raise the PH and was going to begin chlorine at 48 hours after adding the sequester.

However, it rained about an inch after the water has cleared from the sequester - immediately after the rain I checked the pool out and it has been cloudy since.

Just tested it again the the FC = 5 and CC = 5 and that was two hours after adding about 30 ounces of chlorine. So, it looks like we're starting to make a little progress. It's pretty hard to tell but I would say the water is very slightly more clear than last nite.

Can't tell if any re-staining is going on yet - water isn't clear enough.

Thanks to all, Bob

[Simmons99]

There are two things going on here and you need to finish one before starting the other. You are really still finishing the metal treatment process - follow mbar's suggestions. Once you get that complete - then worry about the cloudy water.