Thanks for the input. I shocked my well yesterday with hopes of reducing the iron.

What about filling with my softened water?

It will take a few days but the softener dealer looked at the 14.5K gallons to fill an said it would work. My softeners utilizes fine mesh resin which has in the past taken out most if not all of my iron. Typically a fine mesh resin softener can take up to 3 ppm of iron out reasonably well.

So, Should I use softened water?

Thanks a bunch.