Green Hair????

[readytoscream]

Okay got my water tested at a pool store. Here are the results Free and total chlorine are 0, Ph is 6.8, calcium hardness is 30, toal alkalinity is 43, cyanuric acid is 29, copper/iron is 1.3 phosphates is 0. What now? Thanks for the tip on the green hair. My girls pretty blonde hair is getting back to normal!

[Watermom]

Get some chlorine in there before your pool turns green! Each quart of 6% bleach will raise the cl by 1 to 1.5ppm in a 24ft AG pool. Test each evening, and add enough bleach to get back to 6ppm. Also add a half a box of Borax at a time (to the skimmer), wait a few hours to let it circulate, retest and redose til you get ph to 7.4-7.6. You can also add a half a box of baking soda in the same way until you get the alk to 80-125. Calcium hardness is irrelevent in a vinyl pool. If you find that you are having a hard time keeping chlorine in the pool through a day, you may decide later to bump the cya level up to 40 or 50, but try it at 30 for now.

[readytoscream]

What about the copper? They tried to sell me a bottle of Keetrol to capture the copper. Do I still need this. I've noticed that we are beginning to have small orangey brown spots at the bottom.

[waterbear]

you posted copper/iron at 1.3 ppm. Which is it, copper, iron, or both? If either copper or iron is that high you need the keetrol or a similar product such as Jack's Magic Blue Stuff or ProTeam's Metal Magic. Before you use a product like this the bottle will tell you what your pH and chlorine levels need to be. Follow the directions and do this first! How many gallons is your pool. You said it was a 24' round. How deep? If you don't know the gallons then post the depth and we can calculate it for you. If you have a 4' water depth then the pool is about 13,500 gal. Then we can get you on your way to getting the water balanced!

[readytoscream]

The test results had copper/iron 1.3. Not sure which it is, but knowing that my mother put the copper chemical, like a goof ball, in it to clean it before I took over the maintenace I would probably be safe in assuming it is the copper. The pool is 13,500 gallons. I went this afternoon and bought 4gallons of bleach, 4 boxes of 20 mule team borax, and 6lbs of baking soda. With my test results what do I add first, how much and when?

[waterbear]

First thing you need to do is get a metal treatment product and use it accoring to the directions. If you need to make any ajustments to the water before you use it and are not sure what to do post and we will help you. You need to deal with the metal first before you start adding chlorine. Most of the metal sequstering products work pretty much the same. Like I said before, Jack's Magic Blue Stuff and ProTeam's Metal Magic are both good products that I am familier with. Just be sure you use the dosage for metals in water and not the maintenance dosage.

[readytoscream]

Where do I get the Jack's Magic Blue Stuff? I checked at Lowe's and Wal-Mart.
Incase I forget to Thank all of you later, THANKS!!!