Hi Marty,
I am now in full panic mode with my brown water. It is really brown...i can hardly see the bottom in the shallow end. Will I end up with a stained pool? I need to triage...my CYA, my SLAM, my algae, my pumps, my iron staining
The CYA water swap is leading me into bigger problems. And it appears the only way to get rid of iron is....a water swap. My head is spinning
I searched the forum on iron and saw several articles, from filtering with polyfill to sequestering. Texas Splash (Iron in water) said nothing removes the iron and Richard (same post) said "and if you're lucky it will precipitate out". The water coming into the pool from the hose looks very clear. I used a 5-gal bucket when calibrating the inlet and outlet flows for the water swap and it is clear so mechanical filtering on the inlet likely won't do much. Other posts say to use ascorbic acid and use polyfill in the skimmer to catch iron that precipitates out. And other articles (Ascorbic Acid Treatment - Further Reading) say to use Jack's Magic purple.
I switched my fill to the soft water bibb that normally fills the pool. I don't know if that gets all the iron out or not, but I have not seen the brown pool reaction before.
My pool pumps are not on. Should I pump through my filter to clear the iron?
My filter is depleted. I backwashed it prior to starting this process and have not replenished the DE yet. I was planning to open it up and clean the filter grids when the water was under control but i can do it sooner.
I am in the middle of a SLAM turning into a nightmare. What do I worry about first?
- continue to swap the water (I have swapped about 4000 gal out of 27000 gal)
- deal with the iron reaction before anything else. Should I mess with ascorbic acid/polyfill now or later?
- when should I resume the SLAM? Now? Later?
- should I run my pool filter pump?
- my pool chemistry is going from not-so-bad with high CYA to disaster. My FC was 27 this morning from the shock last night. It will likely fall today with the sunlight. Where should it be?
thanks
I am now in full panic mode with my brown water. It is really brown...i can hardly see the bottom in the shallow end. Will I end up with a stained pool? I need to triage...my CYA, my SLAM, my algae, my pumps, my iron staining
The CYA water swap is leading me into bigger problems. And it appears the only way to get rid of iron is....a water swap. My head is spinning
I searched the forum on iron and saw several articles, from filtering with polyfill to sequestering. Texas Splash (Iron in water) said nothing removes the iron and Richard (same post) said "and if you're lucky it will precipitate out". The water coming into the pool from the hose looks very clear. I used a 5-gal bucket when calibrating the inlet and outlet flows for the water swap and it is clear so mechanical filtering on the inlet likely won't do much. Other posts say to use ascorbic acid and use polyfill in the skimmer to catch iron that precipitates out. And other articles (Ascorbic Acid Treatment - Further Reading) say to use Jack's Magic purple.
I switched my fill to the soft water bibb that normally fills the pool. I don't know if that gets all the iron out or not, but I have not seen the brown pool reaction before.
My pool pumps are not on. Should I pump through my filter to clear the iron?
My filter is depleted. I backwashed it prior to starting this process and have not replenished the DE yet. I was planning to open it up and clean the filter grids when the water was under control but i can do it sooner.
I am in the middle of a SLAM turning into a nightmare. What do I worry about first?
- continue to swap the water (I have swapped about 4000 gal out of 27000 gal)
- deal with the iron reaction before anything else. Should I mess with ascorbic acid/polyfill now or later?
- when should I resume the SLAM? Now? Later?
- should I run my pool filter pump?
- my pool chemistry is going from not-so-bad with high CYA to disaster. My FC was 27 this morning from the shock last night. It will likely fall today with the sunlight. Where should it be?
thanks