I am at my wits end!!!!

[TigerGalLE]

I have a white fiberglass pool. I’m always fighting iron stains. It comes from my water, the red clay that gets dragged in, and who knows where else. And now apparently from my salt!!!!! I did an ascorbic acid treatment recently. Lifted the stains beautifully. My salt was low so I added a bag and my pool is so incredibly stained now. From the salt. All of my hard work over the last few weeks of carefully re balancing my pool and getting it looking nice was just lost. I could cry. AA treatments are time consuming and expensive!!! Where can I get salt that isn’t contaminated??????

 

[mknauss]

What brand salt did you use? Clorox brand is known to stain on occasion.

I use plain water softener salt.

 

[TigerGalLE]

What brand salt did you use? Clorox brand is known to stain on occasion.

I use plain water softener salt.

Yea that would be the one. Clorox brand. Grrrrr. I should have known it was too good to be true at $5 a bag!!! Where do you get your salt? Online?

 

[mknauss]

I get salt at Home Depot. Plain water softener salt

 

[markayash]

walmart has Morton which is also good but seems to only carry it in the spring.

 

[Mdragger88]

I use Diamond crystals or mortons softener or pool salt.
The clorox one has been known to have impurities as they use recycled fracking water to process their salt.

Investigation: Clorox Selling Pool Salt Made From Fracking Wastewater

You might be shocked to learn that a Clorox product used to treat swimming pools came from fracking wastewater.Public Herald has discovered that Eureka Resources, a company based in Pennsylvania, has been treating wastewater from shale gas development — a.k.a. “fracking” — and packaging the...

publicherald.org

Here’s an informative post about it

Clorox Pool Salt

I’ve always used Morton’s, but bought 8 bags of Clorox last weekend. Dumped it Saturday evening, found yellow stains the next day. I immediately suspected trace iron in the salt, and a quick search here confirmed same. I actually called the company that manufactures the salt that is branded...

www.troublefreepool.com