+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 10 of 30

Thread: Sequestration or Chelation??

Hybrid View

  1. #1
    waterbear's Avatar
    waterbear is offline Lifetime Member Sniggle Mechanic waterbear 4 stars waterbear 4 stars waterbear 4 stars waterbear 4 stars
    Join Date
    Nov 2004
    Location
    St. Augustine, Fl
    Age
    71
    Posts
    3,743

    Default Re: Sequestration or Chelation??

    If you have a lot of seqeusterant in the water I suspect that the bleach was oxidizing some metals and the sequesterant reacted with it to form a metal phosphonate precipitate (remember that Metal Magic is supposed to form 'crystals' that your filter willl filter out). That is about the only thing I can come up with.
    Retired pool store and commercial pool maintenance guy.

  2. #2
    mbar's Avatar
    mbar is offline Lifetime Member Whizbang Spinner mbar 3 stars mbar 3 stars mbar 3 stars mbar 3 stars
    Join Date
    Dec 1969
    Location
    Ashland, PA
    Posts
    1,009

    Default Re: Sequestration or Chelation??

    I am just stumped Although it may be algae, my pool used up about 7ppms of chlorine today, which is very high with a cya of 50, the only swimmers were my husband and I, I don't think we have that many cooties. I just can't fiure out why it clouds with the addition of bleach, using up sequestering agent sounds right, but I really don't think I have too much sequestering agent in it, I will have to test it with the sequestering kit I just got, and have been too busy to look at
    Northeast PA
    16'x32' kidney 16K gal IG fiberglass pool; Bleach; Hayward 200lb sand filter; Hayward pump; 24hrs; Pf200; well; summer: none; winter: mesh; ; PF:7.5

+ Reply to Thread

Similar Threads

  1. How long does metal sequestration take?
    By Centex Newbie in forum Dealing with Stains & Metals, . . . and 'Minerals' & 'Ions',
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 09-08-2012, 07:23 PM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts