Argggghhhh!!!

[no1ford]

Ok-so I went to the pool store and they gave me copper algecide-so we will see

[waterbear]

Ok-so I went to the pool store and they gave me copper algecide-so we will see

a whole new kettle of worms!

Read these pages on the sister website www.poolsolutions.com
http://poolsolutions.com/gd/avoiding_algae.html
http://poolsolutions.com/tips/tip08.html
http://poolsolutions.com/gd/cloudy.html

Hope this info is useful!

[Watermom]

Do NOT use a copper algaecide. You do NOT want copper in your pool. As Waterbear said above, it opens a whole new kettle of worms!

[no1ford]

too late-now what!!! I think I am going to drain and cry!

[waterbear]

No need to drain. What's done is done. You can live with the copper....or add a metal sequsterant to deactivte it. I personally would live with it. If you shock and the water gets greener it is the copper. You will need to add sequesternt then. A lot of times that doesn't happen. A lot of times it does.
Just keep tabs on it. It will help kill the algae.
If anyone gets green hair from the copper in the pool it is easy to fix....check out this thread!
http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=326

[no1ford]

Oh-thanks you. I was ready to drain!! I am blown away! I added three bottles of iron out and then the same guy gave me copper algecide for the cloudiness! So didn't he just give me my problem back! My blonde one did swim right after I added, but once she got out we washed her hair and it looks ok.

[waterbear]

You put in three bottles of metal remover and then added metal? I think they have pretty much neutralized each other and the only real effect is that the pool store got richer and you got poorer!
Sometimes I think that people who work in pool stores need to pass an intellegence test to show that they are not complete morons and idiots!