Stock pump vs Intex sand filter

[Raddad]

Ive been doing some research and it seems everyone is using a sand pump filter. I have a 6k gal pool and I want to do this right. Is the sand filter worth purchasing or the stock pump work for the size of my pool?

 

[Poolzzz]

Not everyone, I use the stock pump with a better filter.

Do you have a problem you are trying to solve or just looking to spend money?

What pump and pool do you have now?

 

[rwood5093]

I will probably never get a sand filter. My pool is a 5000gal intex, and my fill water has high iron. We filtered out the oxidized iron, and haven't had any more issues. I don't want to backwash, then top off with metal filled water. I like my cartridge filter, because I don't have to back wash. I've never used a sequestrant either, because we filtered the iron out during setup.
This works well for us. If we had to top off from the well, we would have iron staining to deal with all over again. The main reason we can do it this way is our free water from Mother nature.

 

[Raddad]

I will probably never get a sand filter. My pool is a 5000gal intex, and my fill water has high iron. We filtered out the oxidized iron, and haven't had any more issues. I don't want to backwash, then top off with metal filled water. I like my cartridge filter, because I don't have to back wash. I've never used a sequestrant either, because we filtered the iron out during setup.
This works well for us. If we had to top off from the well, we would have iron staining to deal with all over again. The main reason we can do it this way is our free water from Mother nature.

I have a Coleman 6k gallon and im having trouble with my well water that has alot of iron in it. im going to build a iron filter and was just seeing if the stock pump would work with it.