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Pool Chemicals Balancing Help

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HELP!!! POOL WATER CLOUDY AFTER ADDING SHOCK?

my pool water was perfectly clear and balanced, when i did my weekly dose of shock i noticed that we had a bag of shock sitting outside, the pack was opened on the end, and you could tell the package was faded by the sun, but i thought to myself “pool chemicals are expensive, i’ll just use this bag, while i can”

so i added that old bag of shock to my pool, and immediately after adding it my pool water was cloudy around the area i added the shock, within about an hour, the whole pool turned cloudy!!! i dont know what to do, its only been a couple of hours since i added it but i have no clue why it would turn cloudy like that. i tested the water a couple of hours after, and the levels are all good, except chlorine, which is VERY high (as you would expect after shocking it).

anyone here know what i should do??

Usually if a pool goes cloudy immediately after adding shock, the culprit is a high organic load. That pool desperately needed the sanitizer. The cloudiness is actually gas bubbles formed as the chlorine goes to work oxidizing a high volume of organics.
If that’s the case, it will resolve itself as the organics complete gassing off.
I rather doubt it was a problem with the opened packet of shock itself.
The other possibility is a reaction with a chemical that you’d previously put in the pool. You don’t mention any , so my money is on the organic load if this is a traditionally chlorinated pool.

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Pool Chemicals Reactions

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Public pool chemical reactions?

We just started another swimming unit in my gym class. This is the second one this year. Last time and this time I’ve gotten headaches, fevers, burning eyes (I know that’s normal) and everytime we’ve swam my friends say I’m purple and when I look at my hands they are purple. I don’t think its the lighting because no one else looks like that. I also get very warn and itchy. Anyone have an answer??

Public pools no matter if they are in schools, hotels, or health clubs are usually maintained with a higher dose of each chemical. The reason being is they will tend to have a higher bath load or in other terms people that use the pool each day. By using the higher dose with so many people you don’t have to do as much maintenance and the pool stays sanitized longer. Now chlorine is known to have chemical reactions such as people with blond hair will come out with a green tint to the hair. As far as purple on the skin, purple tends to come from chlorine reacting with things such as hydrogen peroxide for example. I would suggest looking at any lotions, makeup or other products that you may apply regularly or before swimming that may be giving you the reaction when they come in contact with chlorine, and try swimming without those items on or taking a good rinse shower first. Warm and itchy is usually signs of a chemical reaction or I hate to say it but the same feeling you get from a chemical burn, which I’ve had my fair share of after working around pools for so many years, My guess is the purple skin is just a chemical reaction which will give you discomfort, but it may also be possible you have an allergy and the higher dose of chemicals in the public pool is heightening that allergy, so be sure to check with your doctor if it continues.

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