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It's possible. I had absolutely no goop as well. I did my conversion upon opening the pool in April, so I assume that the biguanide was just gone. I chemically cleaned my filter before putting it away last season, and couldn't even find any goop in there after it was all done. My conversion was...

If my wife saw that in our pool, I am pretty sure my FC would be about 350 by the time I got home from work.

Back when I was on biguanide that would have been a good water day! Congratulations, You're on the right track and will be crystal clear in no time.

JFI, that is awesome!

Hi Swampwoman. That is a 2" duplex filter. Depending on your level of filtration they clog up very fast and are quite a workout to operate sometimes. You only filter with one cylinder at a time, and when it clogs you switch to the other and clean the first. If the water is really bad, you won't...

That was me... I am not sure what it would cost for a homeowner to rent one. I think our cost is about $70 a day... It does a 20,000 gallons tank in about 4 hours. I bet this could be built out of PVC for home use as well, and the 1 micron filter bags are only $5-10 each.

By the way, New Castle shop n save has austins bleach on sale for a buck through tomorrow. It's only 5.25% but still just a buck.

Howdy Neighbor... Welcome to the forum! You already threw the first punch at the Baquacil so keep bleaching it till it dies. I got super lucky and mine went code brown right away then cleared over night. You won't be sorry when you see how much better the water clarity is.

I'm pretty new to the swimming pool thing, but I've been in the waste water industry for a decade now. I'm wondering if it is just not more feasible to rent a duplex filter from Baker, Rain for Rent, Adler, etc and a trash pump and double down on the filtration.

FC must have taken a massive beating from the sun yesterday. It fell from 13 at dawn back to 1 at 5:30 pm. I dissolved a pound of dichlor in a bucket and tossed it in last night. FC held at 10 all night, and I dropped two pucks in the skimmer basket this morning. According to pool math I am...

Thanks for the merge. I have a basic understanding, I just want to be sure as having such a small pool makes it much easier to overshoot the mark.

Conversion went much better than expected. Pool looks amazing and holds chlorine overnight. I am wondering if I can bring my CYA up with bags of dichlor and or trichlor tabs, (Which I have access to for free) or if you think it would take too long?

Kudos on the black lagoon avatar. lol

The ladder was my culprit. I fought hard for weeks to improve clarity. It didn't happen until I pulled the ladder out and scrubbed it, as well as the area it had been obscuring.

Thanks! Switching to chlorine will be first on the agenda when I reopen the pool in the spring. I intend to change out the liner as the old one is looking shabby, so it will be the perfect time for it. I did manage to kill the algae, but it wasn't cheap. I tried the recommended algaecide route...

It is most definitely collapsed.. Right at the bottom or the skimmer basket. I didn't notice it collapsing in unison with the burst, but I will grab a hold of it and see what it feels like tonight. I'd like to plumb it in with PVC for next season as the hoses seem like a potential problem to me...

It's 1.5 sq ft 38 GPM pump... I believe it has a 1.5 hp motor. I suspect that it is more than what an 18X4' Round AG needs... One of my coworkers has the same pump on a 29' round pool.

Hello Everyone, I have short burst of air in my return jet, at a roughly 6 second interval. I have checked all of the connections on my Hayward Sandmaster and can't find a leak. I have taken the lid off the pump strainer, cleaned the basket, and lubricated it with the lube that was left with...

New owner of a 17 year-old AG pool. I've recently swapped homes with my parents and the pool obviously came in the deal. It is currently, and has always been, a chlorine-free pool. I'm really not sure how they've managed to keep a clean pool for 17 years without chlorine. Truth be told I've been...