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I replied to you in my post as well. Get a good test kit asap. Drops. Strips are not accurate, just a ballpark. I had a sand filter too. Backwash twice a day. Add a little DE or similar product to the skimmer to aid in the small particle removal. Don't add any granulated until your very sure...

Between 40-50. Lost count. We started the conversion from a winter hibernation so the levels of Bauq were down. In hindsight that really didn't mean that much. Getting the initial mess out went fine. Getting the last bit out took almost two weeks. Even a small amount of Bauq will just eat your...

Update - The pool is doing perfect in every way. SWG is working great and working on dialing in the setting to maintain the FC. Letting it drop slowly. We decided to disconnect the solar panels last night and I did. They have been a source of pink algae since the get go. We were still seeing...

Roger that. With respect to the 7 day comment it was about 3 1/2 weeks for us all total. Long time, it began to wear on us. Worth every bit to get away from Bauq and all the associated headaches with that.

Houston we have liftoff! :cheers: FC overnight we did not loose anything. CC 0. CC has been .5 or less for several days. Filter cleaned, all levels good except CYA still a tad high, working that this weekend to knock down a bit. It took awhile as we had some CDX in the pool last year as well...

We have been keeping the numbers in 20's since Saturday. Yeah the CYA caught us off guard (mistake 2), only use liquid chlorine.. Things are progressing, only 3 gallons of chlorine yesterday, 5 Sunday, 8 Saturday. Overnight FC drop was 2.5 last night :-D It's been raining pretty good so that...

Thank you for replying. CYA is still at 90 firm. Today we only used the 3 gallons of chlorine from this morning. FC at 19 within the hour, CC at .5. Yesterday was 5 gallons, Sat was 8 gallons. I did go and get the Bauq levels checked tonight. Still at 7 on B and now at 5 on C instead of 1. I...

Thanks guys. Well the wife and I are not perfect in our process. So here is the rest of the story...I screwed up, got excited early. We thought we were done, rushed a bit, pool has been gorgeous, did not get FC overnight down to 1 or less. Mistake 1. During the first several days of clearing up...

Checked hourly over the weekend. FC was kept at 15ppm or higher, never lower. Took 5 gallons of chlorine Sunday to maintain. We had brilliant sun all weekend too. Pool was scrubbed several times. Removed sand filter after 8 days and replaced with cartridge filter. No increase in pressure over...

I do have a question for those that have been through this process. We are so close, still loosing 3-3.5ppm at night. About how long can we expect this fight to go on to get the last bit out?

Hello everyone, we signed up this morning. Been reading quite a bit including many posts from other on the conversion process. A little history, Fantasy on ground pool, 23 years old, solar panels, deep end, around 18,000 gallons. I have rebuilt the pool 3 times and it is in excellent shape. We...