Yellow water

[KelRem]

Hi Everyone.  This is my first post on the forum.  I purchased a 6 person Sunrise Tonga hot tub this past spring, we've been having issues with water quality from day 1.  When we fill up the tub it has a yellow tinge to it.  We end up getting brown sludge all around the edge of the tub as well.  We are on a drilled well.  We have a fair amount of iron and iron bacteria in the well.  I have an iron filter in the house.  The drinking water is crystal clear but the tub water is yellow.  I've double checked that the tap the water we use for the tub goes through the iron filter.  We are using romaine.  Any solutions to getting nice clean water in the tub?  The place we bought the tub is not the most helpful.   We just finished draining a refilling the tub yesterday, I pulled out all the jets and cleaned them with iron out as they were stained brown.  I'm attaching a couple pictures of the tub water and our chemical test strip from this morning.  Any help would  be immensely appreciated.

 

Kelvin

 

[arobbert]

You should purge the tub with Ahh-Some. Follow the instructions on the container. You may need to do this several times. I would also super chlorinate to decontaminate after the purge.

http://www.ahhsome.com/ahh-jetted-baths-hot-tubs-swim-spas/

[KelRem]

Ok.  Are you suggesting the yellow Color is caused by some kind of film clinging to the tub?  Thanks.

[arobbert]

I thought since the jets were stained it would help to clean the lines as well. It's a good idea to purge anyway. You'll be horrified by what comes out.

However it sounds like a fill water quality issue, probably iron or some other mineral. I would search the internet for information on this. I found many threads discussing this problem. Once the water quality issue is addressed run the purge.