Recent content by User777

As a reformed Baquacil user for over 15 years, I cannot recommend chlorine enough because the downsides of Baquacil are many: -It is very expensive compared to chlorine. -Baquacil is a sanitizer, not an oxidizer. You have to shock your pool weekly with hydrogen peroxide-based oxidizer, which...

I have a much larger in-ground pool with a variable speed pump running continuously (at low power) with a DE filter, so my situation is slightly different. My pool will get cloudy when the DE gets dirty, I neglect to keep the chlorine levels up, and often after a major rainstorm that washes...

Just as as follow up (under a new TFP account), the solution I described above was temporary. The white water mold came back year after year and I spend hundreds of dollars in Baquacil shock to treat it to no avail. The only solution is to switch to Chlorine! With a chlorine feeder and an...

All done in about 5 days. The 65% chlorine granular shock (without CYA) really did the trick and is so much easier than liquid chlorine. Added 25 lbs over a few days directly to skimmer and had the filter recirculating the entire time with 3" chlorine tabs in the skimmers just to make sure the...

After 4 years of white water mold in my 30,000 gallon Baquacil pool, I have thrown in the towel. Began super shocking the pool per the instructions in this forum with granular chlorine shock and had 2 days of green water. The FC levels have been maintained above 15 ppm and I run the pump on...