OK....I once again am battling the slime and water mold in my baquacil pool. The walls and tiles feel all slimy and slippery, my new filter grids basically turned pink from the slime that was in there a few days ago (cleaned it up real well and now the pressure is up again after only 2 days).
So I am again seriously contemplating going back to chlorine as much as I really don't want to. I must now ask - being that I have been looking at several things on the net that indicate pink slime is a naturally occurring bacteria and white water mold is a fungus and neither are caused by any one particular sanitizing system. Thus, I'm reading that they can grow in any type of pool including ones using chlorine. Is this true? I totally admit that the problem seems more indigenous to biguanide pools, but why wouldn't it also show up with chlorine?
I can't help but wonder if my recent problem - which appeared rather suddenly once I started having the issue with springtails in the pool - is somehow linked. The filter has been full of thousands of these things the past few times I cleaned it. Could the presence of all that bug-stuff in the filter be contributing to the other problems? I need to be more convinced that, if I DO convert to chlorine, that I very likely will NOT have any future problems with slime and mold.
Thanks for any suggestions...
So I am again seriously contemplating going back to chlorine as much as I really don't want to. I must now ask - being that I have been looking at several things on the net that indicate pink slime is a naturally occurring bacteria and white water mold is a fungus and neither are caused by any one particular sanitizing system. Thus, I'm reading that they can grow in any type of pool including ones using chlorine. Is this true? I totally admit that the problem seems more indigenous to biguanide pools, but why wouldn't it also show up with chlorine?
I can't help but wonder if my recent problem - which appeared rather suddenly once I started having the issue with springtails in the pool - is somehow linked. The filter has been full of thousands of these things the past few times I cleaned it. Could the presence of all that bug-stuff in the filter be contributing to the other problems? I need to be more convinced that, if I DO convert to chlorine, that I very likely will NOT have any future problems with slime and mold.
Thanks for any suggestions...