Well water?

[Watermom]

You will probably have to have a pool store run a metals test on a sample of your well water for you. But, do NOT let them talk you into buying anything until you run it past us here first. Use this time to do a bunch of reading and go ahead and get a kit ordered.

EDIT --- I just found a different thread where Ben gave these suggestions for testing well water for iron and manganese.

#1 - Find out if your water has iron or manganese in it. One way is to cut the top off a milk jug, clean it, fill it with well water, add a teaspoon of baking soda, and a teaspoon of bleach, mix . . . and then let it sit overnight. Looking at the water the next morning (or the gunk on the bottom of the jug should give you a clue.

BE SURE TO USE THE WATER YOU WILL FILL WITH! If you have a softener for the house, but will fill the pool with unsoftened water, you need to sample unsoftened water. (A softener removed iron and manganese before it removes calcium.) If you do plan to use softened water, find out what your unit's "break-through" point is, and plan to regenerate often during filling.

[Greg78]

You will probably have to have a pool store run a metals test on a sample of your well water for you. But, do NOT let them talk you into buying anything until you run it past us here first. Use this time to do a bunch of reading and go ahead and get a kit ordered.

EDIT --- I just found a different thread where Ben gave these suggestions for testing well water for iron and manganese.

#1 - Find out if your water has iron or manganese in it. One way is to cut the top off a milk jug, clean it, fill it with well water, add a teaspoon of baking soda, and a teaspoon of bleach, mix . . . and then let it sit overnight. Looking at the water the next morning (or the gunk on the bottom of the jug should give you a clue.

BE SURE TO USE THE WATER YOU WILL FILL WITH! If you have a softener for the house, but will fill the pool with unsoftened water, you need to sample unsoftened water. (A softener removed iron and manganese before it removes calcium.) If you do plan to use softened water, find out what your unit's "break-through" point is, and plan to regenerate often during filling.

Thanks for the help. I will try that experiment tonight.

[Watermom]

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[Greg78]

Greg,

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[Greg78]

Just wanted to give an update. Have had pool set up for 4 days now. We did have iron in our well water.

Filled pool with water after softener, used some aquarium filter floss inside several rags over end of hose to try and collect as much iron as possible, worked pretty good. After fill was completed water did have a slight yellow tinge.

Hung sock of CYA and started dosing with bleach as needed. Rinsed filter element several times (running filter 24/7), was really rusty looking. On second day water was crystal clear and still is. I hope to keep it that way.

Thanks to the forum for all the advice.

[Watermom]

You are welcome! And, thanks for sharing your info about the aquarium filter floss as another idea that someone who is trying to remove iron might try. That is one of the best things about this forum ----- everyone sharing their experiences, both good and bad. There is always something to be learned from both!