Thought I'd post a wrap-up in case anyone has a similar issue and searches to find this thread.
That "little bit of haze left to clear" on Sunday 6/16 was totally gone by Tuesday 6/18 -- "TFP clear" water ever since.
I think that the little bitty 1000-gph filter pump would've cleared the water eventually, but might have taken an additional week or longer to clear the water all the way to "TFP clear". One thing that concerned me about the paper filters was that they were catching much less dead algae after 7-8 days per filter change (~12-18 hours). Flow was still fine after 12 hours, it's just that after a week the cartridges weren't getting to the point of total blockage within a day. I guess I could've started letting the filters go for multiple days at a time.
But in the end, the sand filter powered through that last bit of haze with 60 hours or so. Plus no more filter changes -- I did (and do) have to monitor the sand filter's pressure gauge, but IMHO it's still been a much more hands-off process than clearing water via paper cartridge filters.
That "little bit of haze left to clear" on Sunday 6/16 was totally gone by Tuesday 6/18 -- "TFP clear" water ever since.
I think that the little bitty 1000-gph filter pump would've cleared the water eventually, but might have taken an additional week or longer to clear the water all the way to "TFP clear". One thing that concerned me about the paper filters was that they were catching much less dead algae after 7-8 days per filter change (~12-18 hours). Flow was still fine after 12 hours, it's just that after a week the cartridges weren't getting to the point of total blockage within a day. I guess I could've started letting the filters go for multiple days at a time.
But in the end, the sand filter powered through that last bit of haze with 60 hours or so. Plus no more filter changes -- I did (and do) have to monitor the sand filter's pressure gauge, but IMHO it's still been a much more hands-off process than clearing water via paper cartridge filters.
