Used Metal Magic to remove rusty well water...how to get water to clear?

[Lisaheidinger]

I put my hose in to refill evaporated water....i live is south florida and we have hard iron water. my hose is post water softener...however my water softener failed and i ended up with rusty well water in my pool. I could see a very bad orange tint to the whole pool. I researched forums and chose to use metal magic. I followed instructions and after several day the orange color cleared up. cloudy water remained...i kept running pump and cleaning filter.. the water cleared but i had drifts of white powder looking substance on the bottom. I vacuumed and then cleaned filter....water was cloudy again. Drifts came back but were smaller. Water again cleared up and just now when i vacuumed because we had several windy days so I had some dust and dirt in the bottom the water again clouded up because while i have no visible drifts on bottom i still have something?
What else should i be doing? It has been 4 weeks since i had the well water accident....

my pool is 12000 gallons gunnite , chlorine generator

lisa
i have good
test kit and all my numbers are in range
lisa

 

[mknauss]

Great that you have a good test kit. Can you list it in your signature? Can you post a full set of test results?

 

[Lisaheidinger]

Test results
FC 4
PH 7.8
TA 100
Ch 280
cya 40

 

[Lisaheidinger]

It was crystal clear till i vacuumed...then i stirred up a cloud of white powdery substance and water got cloudy.

 

[mknauss]

With those results we would not think you would have scale or calcium carbonate able to form. I assume the water temperature is below 70F. Do you use Cal Hypo?

I am not an expert on Metal Magic.

I would lower the pH to reduce the TA - but - with iron you do not want to lower pH as it will precipitate the iron.

 

[Lisaheidinger]

Temp is 71. ..i do-not use cal hypo...

I see the tA is a liitle hight...i usually keep it at 80....the white drifts showed up right after i used the metal magic...it appears that the particles are too small to be filtered all out...it is very fine.i

 

[mknauss]

Can you get a sample of the material? If you can, put some in a plastic container and put a drop of acid on it. See what the reaction is.

 

[Lisaheidinger]

cant get a sample....its not even visible any more until i brush or vacuum..then it comes up in a white cloud. I vacuumed several hors ago and it has almost cleared up again

 

[mknauss]

That sounds suspiciously like dead algae.

 

[Lisaheidinger]

I recently completed a SLAM.... found some algae at the bottom of pool under the main drain. I brushed it out and then slammed.....that was late October. Pool has been clean and clear since then until the fill to replaced the evaporated water went wrong..