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If you put a garbage bag around it before removing it from the pool, aren't you going to end up with a garbage bag full of water? And if it's large enough to hold the filter bag, there could be several gallons of water in there - maybe 50+ lbs of weight. Do you haul that giant balloon out of...

We used Baquacil in our pool right from the start which was about 2.5 years ago. We set it up half way through the first season, then had two full years after that. I agree that if the conversion goes as anticipated, it should be a pretty easy process. It just didn't work out for me for some...

I struggled for over 6 weeks with a conversion from Baquacil to chlorine. I was very disciplined about testing and using the Pool Calculator to maintain the 15ppm FC level. My water cleared up within a week, but the CC level never dropped off. It just stayed between 4 and 9 ppm for weeks. I...

I ended up draining and refilling. Almost instantly had perfect water chemistry. I'm posting as a separate article in this forum.

More insanity in my conversion... This morning FC was 13.5 (a 2.5 drop overnight - last night I started at 16) and CC was 9! :shock: This thing is becoming an absolute joke. I'm just about ready to drain the pool.

This morning, FC dropped from 15 to 11.5 overnight. CC is 4.5. Will this ever end? Could there be Baqua residue in the pipes going to and from my filter that somehow needs to be cleaned out? This thing is making me tired. :(

Yeah, it definitely has the CC smell. :tongue: I don't think the initial Baqua level was high because I hadn't had any Baqua product in the pool for about 4 months - the entire winter. Tonight I tested in order to top off the chlorine and CC was 2.5ppm. Actually the lowest measurement I've...

Overnight: FC dropped 1.5 from 15 to 13.5. CC remains at 6. :x

Thanks for the confirmation, Jason. I'll probably go another couple of days maintaining FC at 15ppm to see if I get over the hump. After that, I might add my CYA to conserve chlorine. At this point, I think it would have been much, much easier to have drained the pool, replaced the filter...

Just did a full set of tests. Here are the results: pH: 7.6 TA: 130 CH: 0? (barely, barely turns pale pink when R-0011L reagent added and turns practically clear on the first drop of R-0012) CYA: <20 (even with tube full to the top, can still easily see the black dot) Lost 3ppm FC overnight...

Good idea. I haven't checked anything but FC and CC for about two weeks. I'll do a full raft of tests tonight.

Maybe all of the new water?

Received my 871 reagent, so I'm back in action... Was only losing 1.5 ppm overnight, but CC stayed at about 4 ppm. I replaced the sand in my filter and cleaned it out well. The old sand was INFUSED with stinky, yellow baqua stuff. :puker: It reeked of CC - that super strong smell that people...

Sure could have used that tip earlier! I'll have to remember that the next time I'm shocking. :goodjob:

Sounds like a plan. Wouldn't you know it... just checked and the last drop of my R-0871 reagent is gone. :x I ordered another bottle from TFTestKits (Leslie's doesn't carry that reagent). But until that arrives, I'll just have to assume that my usual daily FC loss is still happening and add...

I'm losing about 1-2 ppm overnight. I'm wondering if that is only because the baqua that won't backwash out of the filter is consuming the chlorine. I've heard that some of that stuff gets pretty thick in the filter and backwashing won't remove it. If that is the case, why should I try to...

I'm about a 10 days into my Bacquacil to chlorine conversion. I'm using a K-2006 kit for testing and poolcalculator.com for determining chlorine amounts to add. Initially, obviously, the FC levels were non-existent after adding almost 2 gallons of 10% liquid chlorine twice a day. :shock: But...

Thanks for the info. I already tried to search for "new pool", but the search engine said the words were too common and refused to return any results. I'll do a few more searches. I ordered a K2006 test kit which is supposed to arrive in a couple of days. When that comes, I'll begin the...

I am fairly new to TFP and have been looking through the postings and haven't found anything on how to start up a brand new pool - only maintaining pools that have been "up and running." We used Bacquacil for a couple of years but are switching to chlorine this year. When we uncovered our pool...