Recent content by bluepool1

If you used pool salt with the additive yellow prussiate of soda (anti caking) and had any iron in water then that may have dyed your water blue. ...or you have copper that oxidized due to the shock.

OK! I have a theory finally! When the pool was filling, I added salt. A few hours later it turned blue. The next day I noticed brown/orange stains starting. It was bad salt. Also, there was some iron in the fill water. Here is why... Salt had an additive called yellow prussiate of soda...

PH was high after we refilled the water. The acid was neutralized using a baking soda generic brand though and some of the acid and baking soda residual inevitably remained in the new water. Does that matter? The PH is now balanced at approx 7.6 but being a saltwater pool, it always...

___________________________ We have not identified the source of the blue tint or staining. The mercite/gunnite is approx 5 years old but the previous owners did not ever add calcium so it is pitted and we know that is one factor but just trying to figure out if anyone has ANY ideas where the...

I dumped my pool due to stains last Saturday (approx 10 days ago). Pool tests come up different every time now that the water is balanced. Some say iron or copper or both or none. The pool guy used muratic acid to wash my pool and then used a generic sodium bicarbonate to neutralize and we...