hope I’m not wasting all this.
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thank you so much!!What you need to do while in SLAM mode is capture as much of the iron as you can now with polyfill. The more you get out now the better. See below for a couple examples. You can also place some polyfill directly in the skimmer basket.
From brown to 😍😍. Thank you polyfil!
We filled our pool from our well. We knew the risks and knew we would have a battle when the water was 12" deep as it looked green from the metals. Our fears were confirmed when we added chlorine and the water turned brown almost immediately. Enter 5 gallon polyfil filter. It worked...
it already looks so much better! 
Ha. No. The important thing is what you are doing now by getting pool water through that bucket by any means possible, and it's working! Fantastic.
Follow up question
We are about 5 days into the SLAM. Chlorine level was at 24 last night after I vacuumed the pool a couple hours after last chlorine add. This morning, FC is at 22.5 and water is still gross looking. Do I need to do something or just wait?
Aw Crud! That’s the only way we got it to stayYes, you can rinse the poly occasionally to remove any trapped iron. So you are basically running all the return water (from the main filter) through your polyfill bucket? Nothing out of the return jet(s)?
Can you post a new pic of the water as t looks today?
By the way, that ladder needs to come out. They are major algae traps. Sorry.
Well, it's probably not ideal because you can't really circulate water very well. The water still has a lot of live algae in it and appears to be very calm (stagnant) and it would be better to see some good circulation in there from return jet(s) to skimmer. Do you folks have a separate pump of any kind available? Something like a sump pump or something you could just drop in the water to go directly to the poly-bucket? Some people will do that and run it through the poly-bucket separately from the main pump & filter line. Just something to consider.
Well I just tried and I couldn’t even get a number. Does that mean I have no CYA?? My view tube only goes to 30ppm and it has a weird indent in the side as well.Also, have you confirmed your CYA recently? If not, you might want to so that today you can be sure you are maintaining the proper elevated SLAM FC level as noted on the chart below.
Oh man. We may be able to borrow one. How can there still be living algae with the chlorine level so high?
Then that means you little to no CYA in the water and need to add some. So I would grab some granular stabilizer and use the sock pre-soaking method to add about 30 ppm of stabilizer. If you've not done the sock method before let us know.
