Does a large Cartridge Filters with added Cellulose Filter Media remove oxidized iron?
(I assume a DE filter does)
(I assume a DE filter does)
Iron Removal by filter
- Thread starter ringi
- Start date
- May 23, 2015
- 25,678
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Cartridge filters, and DE filters, are typically better at trapping fine particulates. Iron precipitates can be quite small but the filter fiber has been known to help capture it. The problem is typically one gets iron scaling everywhere and so it’s hard to control it to the extent of getting it to all go into the filter.
A good read:
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The Wiki has several threads discussing removal and lots of good info :
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What I thought were old iron stains on my cartridge filters, is iron my water!
Hi all Amazingly I found no posts on the forum about this. So I was the victim of the dreaded Iron contaminated Clorox Pool Salt about 3 seasons ago. Apparently it was worse than I thought. There is a nice darker area in my mottled dark plaster in the deep end from salt additions from that...
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The Wiki has several threads discussing removal and lots of good info :
Iron Fill Water Filter - Further Reading
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