Has anyone gone back to regular chlorine from SWG?

[kul]

Your bee idea is interesting. Though both with liquid chlorine and then with my SWG I notice around the same number of bees in my pool. Remember liquid chlorine also adds salt to the water so maybe go ahead and switch completely and see how it goes for you. If chlorine is what you feel more comfortable with, it’s still a good option over pool potions.

 

[Newdude]

The internet and I will kindly disagree that salt water pools don't attract more bees than regular pools

What about all the folks who add sodium hyperchlorite daily and reach close to 'salt pool' salinity? Do the bees know it came from bleach and instead only go for 'salt pools' ? Or do they treat both pools like they have 10% the salinity of the ocean ?

 

[Mdragger88]

That is GOOD! They must have a preferred alternate water source.

We had 10-20 bees on our ladder, stairs, and pool walls around the clock when we inherited our pool. They floated in the water and my kids and I swam into them and got stung many times. Our pool WAS the preferred water source. Our regular chlorine neighbors on all sides did not have this problem, so I did a deep dive and found that it's common that they prefer salt water pools. The pool did have a bonkers high salt level when we bought it. Keeping the salt levels much lower and opening the pool later has significantly helped.

You did say it was also under chlorinated initially so perhaps that was also a draw for the bees ?
I have personally never noticed any difference in bugs of any kind- saltwater or not. In the country we have alot.
My stance, If i can afford a swcg to feed my pool for me I’ll be having one!
My replacement cell cost me $500 a little over a year ago - it has already more than paid for itself in terms of chlorine production compared to liquid chlorine (which is still currently the cheapest form of manually added chlorine). Not to mention saving me the hassle of aquiring of the liquid chlorine. Its a pain especially for a larger pool that needs larger amounts when you live in a rural area.

 

[proavia]

Chances are your neighbors with "chlorine" pools don't maintain their pools with enough chlorine in them.

If you maintain your pool according to TFP methods and the FC/CYA Levels, your pool is probably more invitimg to the bees. Consider plaxing an alternate water source between your pool and where you notice the bees are coming from. Keep it clean and slightly chlorinated. Make it more attractige to the bees than your pool.

Every chlorine pool is a salt pool and every salt pool is a chlorine pool.
Before I added my SWG, the salt content of my pool was 2600 ppm. All I ever added was liquid chlorine, muritic acid and stabilizer. Four years prior, before I did a drain/refill for high CH, my salt level was over 4000 - again, only the previously listed chemicals.