BBB stands for bleach, borax, and baking soda. It is symbolic of an approach to pool care that uses inexpensive chemicals that you can buy at the grocery store (as much as possible), don't put in anything you don't need, and spend just a couple of minutes every day taking care of your pool in order to save money and have a beautiful pool. Almost all of the advice here is based on the BBB method, though we do try to adapt when people indicate that they are using other approaches. You can find more information about BBB in the Stickies section of the site, see the link in the sub-heading of each page.
Salt pools, we tend to call them SWG (salt water chlorine generator), are highly recommended. It costs slightly more but saves lots of work.
Green hair is from copper, not chlorine, which should be avoided in any pool.
The first step in the conversion is to stock up on bleach. You want unscented bleach (sometimes called original scent). Look around for a good price, often the discount stores are half the price of a grocery store. It is hard to predict how much you will need, but probably on the order of 40 gallons, but it can be signifcantly less or more depending on your pool size and baquacil level. You also want to get a good chlorine test kit. It needs to be able to measure FC and CC up to atl least 20. I highly recommend getting the full TF Test Kit, see the link in my signature, but any test kit with a FAS-DPD chlorine test will do.
The entire conversion will take from three days to three weeks, depending on your Baquacil level, how much attention you pay, and the water temperature. At the end you will need to replace your filter media (sand, DE & grids, or cartridge, depending on your filter). So you might need to order something for that.
