Re: Ascorbic treatment
szampino is right. You need to keep your chlorine level at a minimum of 8ppms with a cya of 120. You may want to drain some of your water and refill to get your cya at a better level. You can drain down 1/3, add more water and repeat until you get your cya at about 50. Then I would suggest you get your ph to 7.0 - 7.2. Add more sequestering agent. Sequasol is good, Jack's Magic is good, so is Proteams Metal Magic, also Metal Free, Water warehouse metal out are all good, I have used them all. When you get the ph to 7.0, add the sequestering agent - add more than the bottle says - it should lighten the stain without having to do the ascorbic acid treatment again. You probably didin't have enough sequestering agent in the water to keep the metals from falling out. Sometimes it takes a lot of the agent to accomplish this task. If you add the sequestering agent and after a couple of days to a week, the stains are still there, then add a little more ascorbic acid. Just go around the edge of the pool and then let it circulate for a while. It should take the stain right off. You can then start to raise the chlorine back to level you need for your cya. Just make sure there is enough sequestering agent in there before you use the ascorbic acid. I also suggest that you raise the chlorine with bleach, so that you can do it slowly till you get to the chlorine level you need. Feel free to ask any other questions you have.
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
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