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This morning I shocked my SPA and within a few minute the water turned green.

I use Bromine, what gives

Greg

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Greg

If that is all the information you are going to give, it makes it very hard to diagnose your problem. What if you told the auto mechanic "My car is not running right and I use Shell gas and I put some air in the tires."

Based on what you told me, green is usually copper either dissolved from keeping the pH too low or from putting a bromine tab in the skimmer or from a copper-based algaecide. It could be algae. It could also be high levels of DMH from the bromine tabs which are BCDMH 1-bromo-3-chloro-5,5-dimethyl hydantoin. And it could be high levels of bromide (used bromine) that have built up from not draining your water often enough. It could high TDS. It could be from two chemicals that are incompatible. It could be aluminum. It could be a clarifier and suntan oil.It could be nitrates or nitrites. It could be sulfates.

Test the water or have it tested at a pool store for pH, alkalinity, hardness, TDS, copper, iron, cyanuric acid, nitrates, sulfates, phosphates and total bromine. Then

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My tub usage is daily by one person, me, however being spring break up here ion the great whit north my 3 daughters have been using the tub twice daily.

In the past I have been able to keep my tub balanced with chemicals without having to test all that much. AT ALL.

Upon pulling out my test kit I discovers that my PH level was tooooooooooooooooo low so I moved up the PH with great results. No more green.

So thanks for the help

Greg

BTW 1 . I'm a television broadcast technician and college professor who faces several vague questions every day. When someone comes to me and tells me that their video camera is now producing a green image I formulate 1 to several reasons why and them I prioritize them from easy to figure out to the most difficult. Usually its the easy fix.

BTW 2 Technicians or Tech Support. You cant live with them and you cant kill them or should that be a wife.

BTW 3 I do read this site on a regular basis

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Greg

On 3/18/2005 4:08:47 AM, Greg Davis wrote:
>OK
>
>My tub usage is daily by one
>person, me, however being
>spring break up here ion the
>great whit north my 3
>daughters have been using the
>tub twice daily.
>
>In the past I have been able
>to keep my tub balanced with
>chemicals without having to
>test all that much. AT ALL.
>
>Upon pulling out my test kit I
>discovers that my PH level was
>tooooooooooooooooo low so I
>moved up the PH with great
>results. No more green.
>
>So thanks for the help
>
>Greg
>
>BTW 1 . I'm a television
>broadcast technician and
>college professor who faces
>several vague questions every
>day. When someone comes to me
>and tells me that their video
>camera is now producing a
>green image I formulate 1 to
>several reasons why and them I
>prioritize them from easy to
>figure out to the most
>difficult. Usu