Help.
I have an inground pool and a MasterSpa hot tub. I've never had any issues with keeping good water in my hot tub, until recently. My hot tub water is super cloudy, like milk white cloudy. I tried to increase the FC level for a while thinking it was some algae bloom. I tried to reduce the Alk/PH down. I have now changed the water and started over three times, and it turns cloudy in a day.
My main question is that a few months ago we had installed an WaterPro AIO (air injection oxidizing) filter system, using Katalox media as a whole house filter. We have well water and had some (but not crazy) iron in our water. We used to have a BigBlue carbon filter but it cut our water pressure down quite a bit. We also have a water softener but it is installed after the outside water spigot. I had the AIO setup installed before the outdoor spigot so I could, theoretically, have iron free water to fill the pool / hot tub.
This isn't the brand, but this is similar to what we got: AIO - Air Injection Oxidizing System | EarthSmarte Water.
The media: Katalox Light Iron Removal Media
I was told and believed this AIO would not add any chemicals to our water but would only reduce the iron/copper levels. Does anyone know anything about These? Could it be creating some issue? When I draw water from a house faucet, it sometimes is white, but quickly clears. I'm told it is just hyper-oxygenated from the AIO and is just oxygen and is not any chemicals.
Here is my tub setup:
7 person MasterSpa - roughly 350 gallons.
Just filled it yesterday following a cleaning using a scum/line cleaner
Rinsed with fresh water
Filled
Added a few oz of Metal Magic just in case there is any left over Iron
Waited an hour and added a few Tbls of granular sodium dichlor - SpaGuard Shock at around 8pm yesterday
FC around 3 (test strip)
Alk around 220 (test kit)
pH around 7.8 (meter)
Th around 250-280 (test strip)
Water was crystal clear. Went to bed, woke up to check the water and the temp, and it is white.
FC 0
Alk around 240 (strip)
pH around 8.3 (meter)
I added a few Tbls of chlorine and a little pH down (sodium bisulfate) just now.
So, again my main question is could this AIO / Katalox system being impacting anything? I want to try and eliminate that issue first as I never had this issue until I got the this new AIO setup.
I have an inground pool and a MasterSpa hot tub. I've never had any issues with keeping good water in my hot tub, until recently. My hot tub water is super cloudy, like milk white cloudy. I tried to increase the FC level for a while thinking it was some algae bloom. I tried to reduce the Alk/PH down. I have now changed the water and started over three times, and it turns cloudy in a day.
My main question is that a few months ago we had installed an WaterPro AIO (air injection oxidizing) filter system, using Katalox media as a whole house filter. We have well water and had some (but not crazy) iron in our water. We used to have a BigBlue carbon filter but it cut our water pressure down quite a bit. We also have a water softener but it is installed after the outside water spigot. I had the AIO setup installed before the outdoor spigot so I could, theoretically, have iron free water to fill the pool / hot tub.
This isn't the brand, but this is similar to what we got: AIO - Air Injection Oxidizing System | EarthSmarte Water.
The media: Katalox Light Iron Removal Media
I was told and believed this AIO would not add any chemicals to our water but would only reduce the iron/copper levels. Does anyone know anything about These? Could it be creating some issue? When I draw water from a house faucet, it sometimes is white, but quickly clears. I'm told it is just hyper-oxygenated from the AIO and is just oxygen and is not any chemicals.
Here is my tub setup:
7 person MasterSpa - roughly 350 gallons.
Just filled it yesterday following a cleaning using a scum/line cleaner
Rinsed with fresh water
Filled
Added a few oz of Metal Magic just in case there is any left over Iron
Waited an hour and added a few Tbls of granular sodium dichlor - SpaGuard Shock at around 8pm yesterday
FC around 3 (test strip)
Alk around 220 (test kit)
pH around 7.8 (meter)
Th around 250-280 (test strip)
Water was crystal clear. Went to bed, woke up to check the water and the temp, and it is white.
FC 0
Alk around 240 (strip)
pH around 8.3 (meter)
I added a few Tbls of chlorine and a little pH down (sodium bisulfate) just now.
So, again my main question is could this AIO / Katalox system being impacting anything? I want to try and eliminate that issue first as I never had this issue until I got the this new AIO setup.