[attachment=0:1sbhsgn9]5-1-2010.png[/attachment:1sbhsgn9]Tuesday morning: Vacuumed the pool bottom and walls again. 'Pool Guy': I haven't added chlorine yet. What you see in the pic I'll attach is over-winter. Pool's been on Baquacil for several years. Before the initial well water top up, I used some Baquacil flocculent hoping to settle all the floating debris to the bottom. It didn't work.
After two vacuums to waste, I'm resigned to getting a second set of new cartridges. I realize now there's no way I'd get them clean enough after filtering what obviously won't land on the bottom to vacuum out. Luckily I've found a site online that sells my kind at 2.99ea vs the 4.99ea I paid in the store this year. And they had to order those for me. I waited two weeks to get them. Should've looked online in the first place. Live and learn.
I run fresh well water in while I vacuum so the refill time isn't so long. Anyway, these are current pool state pics. Not a pretty site or meant for the squeamish. lol! I plan to begin liquid chlorine shock dosage this evening after sun leaves the pool. I currently have two cases. Will get another two today. Should I be adding only one bottle at a time every hour, like I've read elsewhere, or is it best to use a case or two initially and then progress through hourly doses?
I'm totally prepared for the color changes. Years ago when I first went to Baquacil there was still chlorine in the water, so it went brown right out of the jets. i freaked (first timer,lol) and called pool store for solution. What I haven't realized until reading many of the posts here is that the heavy chlorine order is not from too much of it, but rather from it doing it's job. Is that right?
The red square in the close up surrounds an example of the white 'wet-tissue' looking stuff that I was told was algae. I assumed it's dead algae. Is that correct or is there another strain?