Hi everyone,
I have been following many threads related to metal staining and treatments, sequesterants and chelators, etc. I need some advice and really just looking for some affirmation I’m going in the right direction here hopefully.
My pool is a white fiberglass pool and although I have small amounts of metals in the water (around 0.4 ppm of copper and 0.1 iron), so far all sequestrants I’ve tried haven’t worked. Metal Free, Metal Magic, Jacks Magic Pink stuff. I’ve done Ascorbic and/or citric acid treatments on the pool 4 times this summer, and it always clears everything just for me to find the next sequestrant also doesn’t work while slowly without coming close to shocking while adding FCL. I have one more to try, Jacks Blue stuff which should help more for copper I’m told (I hope).
I’m also seriously considering a Metal Trap to make sure my top offs don’t add anymore metals to the pool. The well water I have is 0.4ppm copper and 0.1ppm iron also, so I am thinking this should be sufficient to keep the fiberglass from staining in the future if I can get below 0.2ppm copper, and planning to do a near total drain and refill before closing the pool for the winter using the Metal Trap.
All posts I’ve seen about metal trap are old and the results after refilling with one seemed inconclusive, and same for using a submersible pump and filtering the water. Anyone have any good experiences with one they can confirm and whether they filtered the pool water or just filtered from the hose on a new fill?
I have been following many threads related to metal staining and treatments, sequesterants and chelators, etc. I need some advice and really just looking for some affirmation I’m going in the right direction here hopefully.
My pool is a white fiberglass pool and although I have small amounts of metals in the water (around 0.4 ppm of copper and 0.1 iron), so far all sequestrants I’ve tried haven’t worked. Metal Free, Metal Magic, Jacks Magic Pink stuff. I’ve done Ascorbic and/or citric acid treatments on the pool 4 times this summer, and it always clears everything just for me to find the next sequestrant also doesn’t work while slowly without coming close to shocking while adding FCL. I have one more to try, Jacks Blue stuff which should help more for copper I’m told (I hope).
I’m also seriously considering a Metal Trap to make sure my top offs don’t add anymore metals to the pool. The well water I have is 0.4ppm copper and 0.1ppm iron also, so I am thinking this should be sufficient to keep the fiberglass from staining in the future if I can get below 0.2ppm copper, and planning to do a near total drain and refill before closing the pool for the winter using the Metal Trap.
All posts I’ve seen about metal trap are old and the results after refilling with one seemed inconclusive, and same for using a submersible pump and filtering the water. Anyone have any good experiences with one they can confirm and whether they filtered the pool water or just filtered from the hose on a new fill?