Copper and Cl testing

[DavidD]

Patric,

Yes my friend, you have a problem. Copper does not sanitize your pool. You mentioned your kids and this concerns me. You are playing roulette with their health. Get some chlorine, bromine or any other sanitizer in there immediately and/or keep the kids at of the pool.
Test or get your water tested and post the results. We need Fc (Free Chlorine) Cc (Combined Chlorine) and Tc (Total Chlorine-Fc+Cc=Tc), PH, ALK (Alkalinity), CYA (Stabilizer/Cyanuric acid) and CH (Calcium Hardness) as well as your current copper level. We'll try to help.
Now for the copper, yes, it is effective against algae however if you properly maintain your pool, you won't ever need it. All you have been doing is covering up your problems at the risk of sickness, infections or worse. If yours was a public pool, you'd be closed down. Your sanitizer, chlorine in this case, not only kills germs and bacteria but also kills and prevents algae. Most of us here do not recommend copper algaecides except in very extreme cases and I never recommend it. I'd be willing to bet that you have something in your pool right now that is eating up the chlorine as fast as you can add it. Scary!

Dave

[Patrick Block]

Thanks very much, I will post results shortly.

Patrick