iron/copper stains

[daisyfrometa]

Hi I have an inground vinyl pool- 28,000 gallons and recently have had issues with brown looking stains in the pool. We had our 5 year old heater replaced this year because the heat exchanger corroded. I am assuming because of metals in the water.

This year when we opened the pool everything looked OK but within days we saw what looked like dirt on the sides of the pool-thought it was sand because we had the sand in our filter changed-pool guy said it was dirt-we vacummed it, set the fileter to waste and all was good except that brown spots starting showing up along the sides not too many but seems like it getting worse.
Husband went to pool store and they said it was iron.
I'm just a bit confused, are iron and copper stains the same. I read about using vitamin c to detect iron will this also detect copper.

Thanks,
Daisy

[mbar]

Iron and copper stains are different. You must get us full set of your chemical numbers so we can help you. You could also have some kind of algae. Vitamin C will remove metal stains, crushed chlorine will remove organic stains.

[daisyfrometa]

Thanks Marie- i will get you some chemical numbers later today when I get home

[daisyfrometa]

ok Marie here goes some numbers- Husband went to Pool Store(Leslie's) and our water tested for mineral they were not very specific as to what mineral-

FAC 5
ph 7.2
TA 90

put some PH down on spot near shallow end it it cleared.

they suggested a stain remover and metal free -haven't done it waiting for a respose.

We have brownish spots not a lot around the liner and noticed last night a ring around the edge of the jacuzzi- also I have a little bit a green hair in the ends, my daughter's friend had blond highlights that turned green, they called her the hulk @ school

HELP!!

[Watermom]

FYI -- Green hair is caused from copper in the water. I had that happen to me when I swam in a hotel pool on my honeymoon! Walking down the beach with my husband, he looks at my long blonde hair pulled up in a ponytail and says to me, "Your hair is green!" He was right. It was really green. I went to a hair salon and she put some kind of red something or another on my hair and it fixed the problem. Don't know what it was, but it took the green out of my hair.

Marie will be around shortly to help you.

[chem geek]

watebear wrote about the products that remove the green tint from copper in this post. The product line is Nexxus Aloe Rid treatment and Aloe Rid Shampoo.