DamianCharles

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Sep 6, 2023
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Thanks for your advice on sources of copper. After engaging the top rated pool service company to treat copper symptoms ( green hair and nails ) it lead to a fiasco that stained the liner with bright blue splotches after Cop Out precipitate was left I vacuumed for 5 days. At same time as Cop Out they super shocked the pool and added 500 grams of CYA to my already high level of 100. Now Cl and CYA are off the test charts. After vacuuming the liner colour pattern was completely removed from the slopes and bottom and purple precipitated out.
I find out they don’t have copper test strips or kit which is first thing instructed in Cop Out use. Today we replace the pool water to get rid of residual copper and CYA over 250.
Back to my thanks - your tip on the copper heat exchanger source solved the mystery as my 4 year old heater was rotted out and replaced two weeks before the green hair started and ashamedly I then started to manage pool water chemistry after 35 years of just adding chlorine pucks to keep the pool clear. You can imagine where I added the pool
pucks.
 
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Glad it's handled. Beware of any 5 in 1 type products as copper is usually one of the additives. And they go 0 for 5 on their claimed fixes. Lol.

Here in the states, if blue or Xtra blue is written anywhere on the label, it has copper additives so look for that as well.
 
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