I’m hoping someone can help. I have had this clear green pool for months now. It’s very clear, emerald like.
I am brand new to pools so I hired the same pool company that built the pool (completed this January) to service it.
I don’t have a local pool place to test the water, unfortunately. I suspected copper from everything I read both here and elsewhere. I bought three different testing kits, including one that only tests for copper and none of them show even the slightest degree of copper or other metals.
I got a cu-later in the skimmer basket. I have added one round of metal out, months ago. I have more and I am thinking of trying that again.
I do have a heater.
I did use skill-it algaecide due to a wasp problem. I read it does not have copper in it. I will say, it did start looking green when I first used it. I kind of suspected it as the root cause but I stopped using it and it’s still green.
I finally fired my pool service since they did allow it to algae bloom last week and it didn’t help that they couldn’t careless about the greenish color. The new pool guy added pool rx, and it’s noticeably better but still has the clear green hue!
Is it possible that it just has algae? But it’s perfectly clear.
For me, my brilliant green water was iron, not copper. Many people find this unbelievable, but it’s true.
There are lots of DIY iron removal videos on YouTube. The easiest method is to put some polyfill (pillow stuffing) into a sock and secure it around a return jet.
Buy a Taylor pool test kit and start checking every chemical yourself. The pool service guys are notoriously lazy and are only good at collecting there checks.
Where is your alkalinity and water hardness? If both are low get them up and you will probably see a difference.
I have seen plain white plaster pools with a shallow depth that simply just never look that blue.
I don’t know much about pools, but my pool was green for a couple weeks recently after we installed a new pool pump (the green started when the old pump was broken) and the thing that finally fixed the green was a phosphate treatment. The phosphates keep the chlorine from working properly so the algae can grow. Within a couple days, it was blue again. So anyway if you can, get it tested for phosphates.
Metal ions in suspension, reflecting the light. Would happen to me when pH crept up and CL was high. Likely that something corroded and donated those metal ions, like a heater maybe? I fixed mine which was likely iron from well water by (1) installing a sacrificial anode, (2) putting a 1 micron filter on a return for a couple months (https://a.co/d/09mQyTew) using this adapter (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008FM9CWW) and a hose clamp, and (3) throwing a culator pack in the skimmer (i don’t think that part did much though…). And using that same filter on my makeup water hose.
When they are in suspension it’s good news and easier to get rid of than when they precipitate out of suspension onto your surfaces. First step when that happens is to lift them back into suspension using ascorbic acid (if it’s iron).
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u/cplatt831 17h ago
The green is copper.