How to Remove Red, Green, or Purple from your Pool

There are times when pool water will turn your water a color after adding chlorine or shocking your pool with a chlorine based shock. The color may change green, reddish, or a purple. The reason behind this color change usually indicates a metal is found in your swimming pool. The chlorine adds actually oxidizes the metal and will cause some type of reaction that is then visible in your swimming pool. There is treatment that can be added to your pool, but you may also want to find out what the source is that is causing the metal in your pool water. Metal in your pool water may come from several sources. If you work off a well then you may want to check metal content in your well. Even city water may have metal found in their water due to old rusty pipes that are going from your treatment center to your actual home. Other sources may be old pumps or heaters (very old) or old copper piping. Also some algaecides use copper in their mix so you may want to check if your recently used this. Let's first figure out what metal is in your pool.

What Color is your pool water?

• Green - Green Pool Water usually indicated that your water may have either copper or sometimes iron in your water. If it is a deep thick green and your water is starting to cloud up. There is probably an algae in your pool and you should follow these steps. How to clean a green swimming pool
• Reddish Brown - Reddish Brown water usually points to iron in the water. Other irons can be manganese and occasionally copper.
• Purple to a Purple Black - Purplish water points towards manganese. This color is not spots on your pool wall. This is the actual color of your pool water. If you do see black spots forming it is black algae. Please follow the instructions on How to get rid of pool algae.

Getting the metal out of your pool water.

• Shock Pool - If you have not shocked your pool. Shock it to cause the metal to oxidize and vacuum it out of your swimming pool.
• Add Rust Remover - Super Rust and Scale Remover. This will reduce the rust and keep it from coming back. If you have no way of getting rid of your source of the metal you will need this remover.

 

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