Filling a small pool with iron well water

[Watermom]

The 6-way hth would be even better....

Yes, and the Taylor K-2006 or 2006C would be even better! Ben has written in a few posts today that our main sellers on Amazon are currently out of stock, so you may want to wait a couple of days before checking. One of the sellers on Amazon that we really like is Amato Industries. So, check Amazon a little later in the week and see if they have restocked yet. (See the test kit link in Janet's signature above.)

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[newbiepool]

Thanks Watermom. We had gotten the 6 hth kit so when we need another I will see if they are available on Amazon. We had to filter well water so hopefully our chlorine tablets are copperfree and the filtering helped!

[Watermom]

If you have the HTH 6-Way kit, you can pick up a small add on kit (K-1515) which will give you the FAS-DPD kit a and you'll be good to go. It is on the test kit page in my signature.

[newbiepool]

Awesome...thx

[Watermom]

You are welcome!

[newbiepool]

If you use the well water, you'll need to use a metal sequestrant (they don't actually remove the metals--they just keep them suspended in your water so they don't fall out and stain your pool). Don't worry about the TA for now, and just make sure the pH is in the 7.0-7.6 range. You'll need to add enough chlorine to keep algae from growing, but you can't immediately shock the pool due to the metals, so you need to keep your chlorine in the 2-4 ppm range.

We added a couple trichlor tablets this morning and they aren't doing much...just sitting there. It is really cold today (55degrees) not sure if that matters. We did use filtered well water to fill it and it doesn't seem as rusty. We also wondered about the BBB method...should we skip the tablets and use bleach? If so how much? I did use the kit to check chlorine and pH and the pH is good but no chlorine. Not really what to do next...any suggestions?

Thanks!

[Watermom]

You can definitely just use bleach if you want but if you do, you'll have to add some CYA separately which would be fine.

In your small pool, each quart of 6% bleach will add about 2.3ppm of chlorine. Until you get some CYA in there, the chlorine will disappear fast especially on a hot sunny day. I'd add a couple quarts and see if that will give you enough to make it through the day without it all disappearing by evening.

If you decide to go this route (bleach) you'll want to add some CYA to an old sock and hang it in front of a return jet. 2 lbs. of it would give you a reading of about 40ppm which would be good. If you give the sock a squeeze every once in awhile, it will dissolve faster. But, if you do add this CYA separately, you won't want to use the trichlor pucks or dichlor shock powder since they both have CYA in them. When you buy it, it may be labeled as stabilizer or conditioner. Check the label ingredients. You want cyanuric or isocyanuric acid.