Big Mistake

[Monkeylove]

I thought I bought two bottles of proteam metal magic today..brought them home and had one of my sons go pour them in the pool for metal control...turns out the second bottle behind the first on the shelf was Phosaway. Now my pool is cloudy mess! What do I need to do now?

Monkeylove

 

[Richard320]

Follow the directions on the phosphate remover. I believe the stuff eventually filters out and then you backwash it away. Don't hold me to that, because i've never used the stuff.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

Unfortunately you may have a bigger problem. Often times phosphate removers come with two active ingredients - lanthanum chloride to react with phosphates and an cationic (+ charged) clarifier to make the lanthanum phosphate particles easier to filter out. The metal sequestrant is an anionic (- charged) chelating agent.

Problem is, when you mix a cationic clarifier with an anionic metal sequestrant, the two stick to each other like glue and you get a giant cloudy mess. Let your DE filter go to work on it with slow, constant filtration and you should hopefully see it resolve in 24-48 hours. Backwash the DE filter as soon as clarity is restored.

 

[Monkeylove]

Uggg...that was what I was afraid of..guess it is time to get another bag of earth.

Thanks for info

 

[Monkeylove]

FYI...it filtered out after 30 hours and two changes of earth. Thanks for the help. Read the labels!

 

[zea3]

Thanks for the follow up!