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I conerted my pool to a salt water pool and it circulates through the heater. I have heard of people having trouble with water color turning torquise and eventually the heater inners came out into the pool. Is this possible? Is the salt water hard on the heater and will it eat through the...

Thanks a bunch--the water has cooled quite a bit and my FC is now very high and pink slime is gone. Thanks for the advice.\ I have always been concerned about getting the FC too high but that's wahat it takes and keepng the cya down below 60 in SWG. Mark

I bought some color pigment on line and will add it to a + b apoxy and try that when it get warmer. Thanks for the thought.

Thnaks a bunch! The season is just over here but I will maintain the FC level very high to hopefully get rid of pink algae. It is the first time in 10 years that I have seen it. Any water temp s about 65 F so it doesn't take much for chloride to build and kill this stuff through the winter...

OK-Thnaks will do.

It will brush off but not easily like green algae. It is definitely red and I had had that before. Also it is only on the sides of the gunite pool, not the bottom and the water is clear. Seems to gather a bit more each day. I only use salt, bleach, borax and acid to lower ph. Nothing else...

I finally got my pool balance ( with the help of TBP) and it has been clear with no algae forming even in 88 degree water temp for over a month. Now I am starting to see red algae forming on the sides of the pool. It doesn't bush off very easy like the green algae. I have let the chlorine...

I have a few places on my pool that were eroded when the pool company power wash my pool a few years ago. It is a plaster pool 3-6 ft with diamond brite finish--light and dark blue. I have use a+b apoxy and it does cover some of the spots in the shallow end but the spots but the white epoxy...

Check out my recent posts and learn what I did---http://www.troublefreepool.com/salicylic-acid-to-remove-iron-stains-t69023.html Lonmg story short--- If you only have a few small quarter size spots. Just take some Vitamin C tablets and put them in a sock ( or panty hose with something heavy (...

Got it --you are right--iron stains come back some and guess they will. Just waiting on materials to come and now I understand.

I read up on it again and must not have been paying attention before. I will get some purple stuff and what is left in after I do the recommended treatment with the ascorbic acid I will keep some of the purple stuff in the pool. The real question is how much and how can you tell other than it...

I ordered the kind that was recommended by TFP so it should be OK. I will read up more on this. Do I want to keep it in suspension so it doesn't stain the walls or so i can filter it out. Sorry just confused with the language. before all I did was keep it simple. Add chlorine, algaeside as...

I have been to BBB many times but I do not understand maintaining a level of sequestrant at all times. What do you recommend and how much and how do you test for it. You are talking about Flocc right?

iron from well water is my problem. Hey it's me again--it seems like my problem all along has been iron in the water from a sprinkler system fed by well. I did use salicylic acid in just the spa and it cleaned the stains out fast--then flocc and vaccummed . TFP says don't use salicylic so...

Thnaks