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The spots are appearing all over the pool - including areas that were not repaired, such as the hot tub and sundeck. Does that indicate there is another source of the problem? Would the rust really leach out in completely separate areas?

So what is the solution long term? Here is a closer up photo of the repair.

The cuts were filled with gunite then replastered on top of that. You can see the gunite fill in the second photo in my original post. Now that I look at it though, the gunite that was filled was maybe a 1/2" short of the original gunite.

This is where I get confused. Pool builder came back out with test kits for iron and copper. Iron came back negative. I took the water to get tested and it showed .1 copper. Any chance the heater is leaking copper into the water?

UPDATE: Vitamin C in a sock for 5 minutes left a clean area in the middle of one of the spots.

Warning - this is a long post. I've included a lot of history and detail because at this point I'm not sure what might be relevant to the issues that we are having. There are several pictures of the issues discussed at the bottom of the post. This is my first post (EDIT: it turns out I posted...

This is my first post so be gentle. I included some test results and photos below but first the background story on how I got here. We had this same green tint for about 24 hours when I initially filled the pool in May. It went away within 24 hours after only adding half a shock bag and half...