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Mdragger88 said:
They sell it at Walmart for $20 for 10#
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Or perhaps you may know someone w/ a de filter who would give u some?
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The only person I know with one around here said they switched to cartridges recently. Their town put a ban on them and even people who got grandfathered in had to add a separator so they just went cartridge.

That’s a terrible deal considering you pay $5 more and get more than double but it still might be the route I go, lol. Thanks!
 
Made a lot of progress on that loamy silt today. Vacuumed to waste three times this afternoon. Also pointed all my returns down to stir stuff up better. About to turn the pump back on and brush hard.
 

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duraleigh said:
Don't worry about brushing "hard". just brush the debris up into the pool water so the filter can take it in.

The pump should be on 24/7 until your pool is crystal clear with no sign of algae or debris.
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My pump has been running 24/7 since April :p; it’s gonna be a fun power bill.

I didn’t literally brush hard…vigorously might have been a better word. I was really stirring things up.
 
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PointeTaken said:
My pump has been running 24/7 since April :p; it’s gonna be a fun power bill.
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I run my superflow VST 24/7. My highest speed only uses 290 watts. The advantage other then it really keeps the pool clean is that I can run the salt water generator 24/7 as well. This really helps keep the chlorine levels up after a rain or high use ect. In regards to the DE, it will really reduce the flow of the filter in short order. I put some in last night at around 5:00. This morning, the slight haze has completely cleared, but I barely have any flow coming out of my returns now, and it’s time to backwash. I don’t use it in my filter 24/7, rather I tend to think of it as limited use and as kind of as a clarifier substitute.
 
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I run my superflow VST 24/7. My highest speed only uses 290 watts. The advantage other then it really keeps the pool clean is that I can run the salt water generator 24/7 as well. This really helps keep the chlorine levels up after a rain or high use ect. In regards to the DE, it will really reduce the flow of the filter in short order. I put some in last night at around 5:00. This morning, the slight haze has completely cleared, but I barely have any flow coming out of my returns now, and it’s time to backwash. I don’t use it in my filter 24/7, rather I tend to think of it as limited use and as kind of as a clarifier substitute.
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I run mine 24/7 but usually only at around 39W. The absolute highest I run it at is 2750 RPM, which uses about 700W.
 
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Update for anyone still watching or interested. Water has continued to clear since my last vacuuming. A little bit of sediment has collected back in the bottom in a dead zone, so I’m hoping one more vacuuming will take care of that. I added 4 lbs. of CYA last night and have adjusted FC accordingly. CC values have remained at zero for the most part, except for the occasional 0.5 reading. We even had a short swim in the pool on Memorial Day. I’m 99.99% convinced at this point that I don’t have any active organic growth in the pool and that all cloudiness is due to silt. As someone said earlier, this is not a prototypical TFP problem. I’m going to give the filter til the weekend and see if it gets the water crystal clear by then. If not, it will be time to add some DE. I’m hopeful that that will carry me over the finish line.

The sediment left some staining on the liner. I’m sort of surprised the SLAM FC levels I’ve maintained for the past month haven’t taken care of that. Looks organic, but any chance it could be iron? There is a lot of iron ore around here, and presumably it could be in some of that storm runoff. I’ll have to grab some vitamin c and try it out.
 

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I wouldn't do the clarifier. After you get the dolphin, I think it would take around 3 days to get rid of the sediment. Vacuum every day (and evening). It will go away. It always does on my end and it is sediment from organic matter. I have too many trees around my pool and after the algae clears on pool opening, I'm always left with a fine sediment that clouds from the leaves sitting on the bottom that I missed before closing. It goes away after around 3 days and the pool is clear. I do keep the chlorine higher until the sediment is gone....around 10 - 12...but that's my opinion.
 

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angfiggy said:
How do you like it? I need a new robot and am leaning corded, but am having troubles finding one that will go 41 feet. I don't want bells and whistles and I don't want to deal with batteries.
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It’s doing it’s 6th cleaning right now. So far, I am very happy with it. I got the caddy and cover, too, and it’s so worth it. The TigerShark was considerably heavier and I hated having to lug that thing out several times a week. Plus it was a pain to clean. The Triton is an absolute breeze…5x faster to clean out than the TigerShark. Has just enough bells and whistles (a simple scheduler) for me.
 
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32B4ED23-62FA-4495-ACC3-727CC4997035.jpegGood news - we got almost 6 inches of rain this morning and the new high-flow submersible pump did it’s job beautifully. The rain was totally unexpected and I did not have the pump set in place, so I was out there in a tshirt and gym shorts in the pouring rain at 3:45 this morning getting it hooked up. Here’s the pool now. Probably lost a decent amount of the CH, SALT, and CYA I added last week, but at least the pool is clear 😂
 
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