Recent content by Katodude

Is that a GCQuad? Nice setup.

Ok then, no draining required. Regular SLAM. Carry on.

If the pool is a swamp you might want to consider another drain and refill.

Hush your mouth calling my robots inferior!!! :laughblue: I will put my navy up against any manual vacuum.

I dont want to hijack the OP’s thread. This is about killing springtails for which we have given him a working solution. If you want to have a deeper discussion around pest control I suggest you start a thread in TLF under their pest control section. You will get a lot of great advice there.

I can always order more!!!!

So I need to look for that article, but in full disclosure it was around a treatment for whitefly which is another pest I have to deal with much more than springtails. They talked about the synergistic effect and I used it for a whitefly treatment and it worked incredibly well. Long story...

You want to take care of ants, use Fipronil. Once application should handle them for a season.

If 30-50 is good, the 77 I put in must be amazing!!!!. If it keeps my pH more stable more than worth the price, especially if I avoid scaling on the cell. My dog is soooo afraid of the pool, not worried about her drinking from it. And she always has a nice bowl of water on the deck. Besides...

Using any of these is not switching it up. All are Group 3 insecticides and use the MOA. Acephate is a group 1 and any synthetic pyrethroids are group 3. The combination of these two separate insecticides has a synergistic effect. Springtails are a difficult beast. And now you have a large...

Always read the label. I use the turfgrass rate which will be around 1oz per gallon which is the same rate I use for Bifen (the ingredient in Talstar). Tank mix the two. Each gallon should cover 1000 sq ft. Spray as much area as you can. Mulch, grass, deck, etc. Springtails come from moist areas...

https://www.troublefreepool.com/wiki/index.php?title=Borates_in_pool

I would really consider borates. I have been getting scaling in my SWG even with a negative CSI. The borates are supposed to help with that. I just dumped a bunch of borates in yesterday and I am going away for about two weeks. I will let you know how that works when I get back.

I dont know just seemed like a good amount. And now I dont have to store the bucket anymore.

Dumped a whole pail, 55lbs of Boric Acid in the pool.