Hello all,
I'm a chemist by trade and new pool owner.
I was doing some research regarding the behavior of our newly installed fiberglass pool (green nails and hair) and came across a thread detailing another member's issues with copper staining. I'm seeing this on these forums as a recurrent issue and most other members advocate for replacing the pool water. Obviously I don't want to do that (I just put it in!) so I'm dead set on quantifying and removing the copper to an acceptable level.
Most of what I do at work is metals separation science in support of producing certain elements that are used for salt water "chlorine generators" and chlorine/ bleach in general (bleach people call it the chloralkali industry) so I'm hoping to leverage some of that experience.
I'm a chemist by trade and new pool owner.
I was doing some research regarding the behavior of our newly installed fiberglass pool (green nails and hair) and came across a thread detailing another member's issues with copper staining. I'm seeing this on these forums as a recurrent issue and most other members advocate for replacing the pool water. Obviously I don't want to do that (I just put it in!) so I'm dead set on quantifying and removing the copper to an acceptable level.
Most of what I do at work is metals separation science in support of producing certain elements that are used for salt water "chlorine generators" and chlorine/ bleach in general (bleach people call it the chloralkali industry) so I'm hoping to leverage some of that experience.
Yes, copper staining is one of the most troublesome issues for pool owners. Interesting you seem to already be having this issue. 
Do you know how copper was introduced to the pool? Did you use a mineral sanitizer for a while, add copper algaecides, or perhaps have a bad heater element?