Metal in pool

[waterbear]

newpoolgirl,

What is the brand on the pucks and what color is the lid? some manufacturers use yellow lids on cal hypo and orange on trichlor.
Also, there are not that many cal hypo tabs on the market.

[newpoolgirl]

it's hth brand pucks. the lid is yellow. (their trichlor lid is orange)

i do have a breakthrough...lol...i was holding off of adding more sequestrant since our conversation yesterday, but since my water was looking worse, i bought some cheap brand and put it in this AM. now my water went from brown to cloudy greenish color there is alot of stuff settling on bottom. i made my own vac system out of intex vac head that came with pool. bought a cheap hose and stuck that on the end where the bag would go on vac head, and shoved other end of that hose into intake on inside of pool. it was sucking stuff up, but the cartridges didn't filter it. everything was going back into pool. Went out and bought sand filter made by AquaQuik, now i can vacuum and clean water goes back into pool. hoping that this filter clears the water for me so I can start over.

If this works should i continue with the pucks i have?
What is the real deal with shocking? Do I shock and continue to have brown water?
Bleach is the cheaper way to go?

[mbar]

I'm glad you are having some success! I would keep the filter running, and keep your chlorine at 5 (it is not shocking your water at that level). If you can give us a new set of numbers it would be good. The metal out you put in the water probably took your ph down. I would not add anything else for now. Just keep vacuuming and see how it looks tomorrow. I would go to regular bleach. You don't want to add anything but chlorine to your water. Your cya is already at 60, and you may already have a high calcium level. You just have to keep the chlorine up there. You don't have to shock for now if the pool is holding chlorine.

[newpoolgirl]

Day 2
water is no longer mint green, now it is just cloudy.
today's #'s
Hardness 150
TC 0
FC 0
pH 7.2
TA 140
CYA 50

do you think the cloudy water will clear on it's own?
Should I start adding the bleach now or should i add more sequestering agent before i do just in case?

[PoolDoc]

Please put some chlorine in ASAP -- whatever kind you've got.

Pools 'spoil' VERY quickly in hot sunny weather without chlorine. I will try to look at all that's gone on in your pool since I last posted, but can't do so right this minute. But I did want to encourage you to get some chlorine in before it's too late.

Ben
"PoolDoc"

[waterbear]

it's hth brand pucks. the lid is yellow. (their trichlor lid is orange)

Yes, these are cal hypo pucks for use in the skimmer BUT they do contain copper if they are the 'dual action' ones!!!!!!
The ones I sold did. (NOT my choice or my decision to make.)

[newpoolgirl]

ok I will add chlorine. just wasn't sure if i had to wait a day or 2 after the sequestering agent. Also, can someone paste that site for the bleach calculation per the water test. I know it's on here somewhere but I can't find it. thx

[mbar]

Do you mean this chart?

Ben's 'best guess' FC/Stabilizer table for algae free operation of OUTDOOR pools -- as of July 2003 --

Use the info in this chart to help you figure out what levels of chlorine you need to maintain in your pool based on the amount of CYA (cyanuric acid, also called stabilizer) that you have in your pool. (FC = free chlorine)

Stabilizer . . . . . . Min. FC . . . . Max FC . . . 'Shock' FC
=> 0 ppm . . . . . . . 1 ppm . . . . . 3 ppm . . . . 10 ppm
=> 10 - 20 ppm . . . . 2 ppm . . . . . 5 ppm . . . . 12 ppm
=> 30 - 50 ppm . . . . 3 ppm . . . . . 6 ppm . . . . 15 ppm
=> 60 - 90 ppm . . . . 5 ppm . . . . . 10 ppm . . .. 20 ppm
=> 100 - 200 ppm . . . 8 ppm . . . . . 15 ppm . . .. 25 ppm

[newpoolgirl]

I found it not too long after i wrote my last post. It figures..lol. It was actually a site called "the pool calculator". Anyways at 3pm i added 5cups of bleach(6%), then went to party. came home at 1030pm and tested and my FC and TC are still 0. my other #'s didn't change. i added 1qt 2c. 4oz. as to what that site calculated. guess we will see in morning if it does anything. My water was still cloudy. I just hope i don't turn it brown again. wish me luck cause i need it. What do you think about a clarifier?

[mbar]

I would hold off on the clarifier. You already have a lot going on in your water. Keep up with the chlorine.