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And with 3 bottles of Metal Free in the pool, the metals should be sequestered enough for chlorine? 3 bottles is 3X the recommended dosage for 20,000 gallons. She says the stains that started again yesterday, seems to have stopped (not gone away, but no worse) after 3rd bottle (but no more...

Okay. Let me be sure I understand ppm. If 1 gallon of bleach is about 6% chlorine, that's 6ppm per 10,000 gallons, correct? Or for 20,000 gallons, it would be 2 gallons of bleach to equal 6ppm. And if I only want to add 2ppm to 20,000 gallons, it would be about 2/3 of 1 gallon of bleach, then...

I'm going to try to find one of those recommended. I may need to order it online. When adding chlorine slowly, in small amounts, multiple times per day, can you give me a guideline? I was using bleach this time b/c I know it is much weaker than shock, and thought that was the way to go.

So, it would be best to use one of the above sequestrants, and then began adding chlorine?

Re: Metal Staining - a Seemingly Never Ending Problem We're dealing with a metal stain in my mom's vinyl, 20,000 gallon, inground pool. Vitamin C test worked so we used Stain Free product and Metal Free. Stains disappeared, but when we began to add chlorine again (we'd dropped it to 0 as...

Metal Stains-HELP Help! We've been trying to rid my mother's vinyl, 20,000 gallon pool of metals for the last few weeks. She had a terrible stain around the walls that turned from yellow, to orange. :P We did the vitamin C test, and bingo... it came right off!! Her CYA level was very high so we...

Please only ask a question once, and in your own topic, rather than hijacking someone else's topic. Thanks JasonLion I think this is definitely the place where I need to start! New to TFP. Trying to rid the metals/stains in my mother's vinyl pool, 20,000 gallons. Here's what we've done over...