Saltwater Pool with Manganese

[BrentC]

We recently completed our 16,250 gallon saltwater pool. We have a little manganese in our well water and our pool builder used SC-1000 during startup to mitigate the metals. We have been generating chlorine now for a week and all levels seemed to be in good shape. We backwashed the DE filter this evening due to pressure increasing ( mainly because our sod hasn’t grown in completely and the dry sandy soil keeps blowing in the pool). We need to add some water back to the pool so I went to mix metal out that was recommended locally since they do not carry the Orenda products (Regal RGL-50-2720). Before pouring the chemical in the pool, as per the directions I poured the bottle into a bucket of pool water, and it went from the pink color in the bottle to a bright yellow in the bucket. I decided to wait to pour into my pool and emailed the manufacture. Reading on the regal website I see they make a concentrate for salt pools but the product I purchased does not say anything for or against salt pools. Can anyone offer any guidance on that? I don’t want to turn my pool water yellow.

 

[ajw22]

Welcome to TFP.

Show us pictures of the bottle of “metal out “ you used and the ingredients listed on it.

 

[BrentC]

Welcome to TFP.

Show us pictures of the bottle of “metal out “ you used and the ingredients listed on it.

Welcome to TFP.

Show us pictures of the bottle of “metal out “ you used and the ingredients listed on it.

Thanks!

I do not see ingredients listed on the bottle. Today I am concerned it could have been more of an algae problem but I’m not sure. All of our white skimmer baskets and the pump strainer basket are stained with a sticky yellow substance that I was able to scrub partially off this evening with chlorine cleaner. The pool water looks great tonight.

 

[ajw22]

The ingredient on the bottle is phosphonic acid. That is a sequestrant.

Sequestrant - Further Reading

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