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The stain started to come back once since my last post here so I dumped 20 oz. of ProTeam's Metal Magic in the pool and it went away over night. I've also put 3 Ferri-Tabs in the skimmer once a week since my last post. I'll continue to do that until the Tabs are gone.
My water and liner have looked like an Olympic pool does on TV since my last post (except the one time). The water and liner have been absolutely perfect.
I've been diligent with my testing, especially for PH & FC. I maintain my PH at 7.1 with muriatic acid and my FC at 6 with liquid chlorine (12% stuff in 5 gallon tubs) from my local pool store. It's the only thing I buy there. Their price is $17.50 with tax, so not bad plus I want to maintain a relationship with them in case any of my equipment goes bad. They've been good to me in the past. I never let my FC drop below 2.5. It was hard and required a lot of testing often and lots of chlorine and baking soda (to raise my PH) right after the AA treatment.
I was actually debating this morning whether or not I'm going to add Metal Magic once a week or wait until I see staining again. I'm leaning toward waiting. It worked before and would obviously save me some money. Everything is so clean looking so I'll spot it right away again.
Bottom line is I am thrilled with the result of the Ferri-Tabs and the Slime Bag. Every time I vacuum I attach the Slime Bag to my return port and leave it on there for about 3 hours after I'm done. I've all but eliminated the 'silt' that used to be on the liner seams every day by doing that. I also used it to add about 4 inches of water to my pool, and will use it whenever I need to do that.
The slime bag is catching much less now than when I first started to use it. At first I would see a little green and a lot more brown color coming out of it than I do now when I would clean it. Yesterday after vacuuming and then cleaning the Slime Bag hours later there was hardly anything noticeable that came out of it. The first time I cleaned the bag after I used the initial dose of Ferri-Tabs I was stunned at the color (orangy is the only way to describe it) that poured out of it. That has now disappeared completely.
The one thing I don't have is a metal tester, so I can't say for sure if my metal content has dropped. What I can say is this is the first time in years my pool's water and liner have stayed this clean looking for this long.
The stain started to come back once since my last post here so I dumped 20 oz. of ProTeam's Metal Magic in the pool and it went away over night. I've also put 3 Ferri-Tabs in the skimmer once a week since my last post. I'll continue to do that until the Tabs are gone.
My water and liner have looked like an Olympic pool does on TV since my last post (except the one time). The water and liner have been absolutely perfect.
I've been diligent with my testing, especially for PH & FC. I maintain my PH at 7.1 with muriatic acid and my FC at 6 with liquid chlorine (12% stuff in 5 gallon tubs) from my local pool store. It's the only thing I buy there. Their price is $17.50 with tax, so not bad plus I want to maintain a relationship with them in case any of my equipment goes bad. They've been good to me in the past. I never let my FC drop below 2.5. It was hard and required a lot of testing often and lots of chlorine and baking soda (to raise my PH) right after the AA treatment.
I was actually debating this morning whether or not I'm going to add Metal Magic once a week or wait until I see staining again. I'm leaning toward waiting. It worked before and would obviously save me some money. Everything is so clean looking so I'll spot it right away again.
Bottom line is I am thrilled with the result of the Ferri-Tabs and the Slime Bag. Every time I vacuum I attach the Slime Bag to my return port and leave it on there for about 3 hours after I'm done. I've all but eliminated the 'silt' that used to be on the liner seams every day by doing that. I also used it to add about 4 inches of water to my pool, and will use it whenever I need to do that.
The slime bag is catching much less now than when I first started to use it. At first I would see a little green and a lot more brown color coming out of it than I do now when I would clean it. Yesterday after vacuuming and then cleaning the Slime Bag hours later there was hardly anything noticeable that came out of it. The first time I cleaned the bag after I used the initial dose of Ferri-Tabs I was stunned at the color (orangy is the only way to describe it) that poured out of it. That has now disappeared completely.
The one thing I don't have is a metal tester, so I can't say for sure if my metal content has dropped. What I can say is this is the first time in years my pool's water and liner have stayed this clean looking for this long.