Anyone else have trouble w/Baquacil after using it for a few years and have to switch back to Chlorine?
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Not at all uncommon for Baquacil pools to develop water mold. Particularly in warm water areas. The company has tried for years to develop a system to combat water mold, without success. Once you get it, you're stuck. Symptoms include cloudy water. Shocking helps, but in just a few days it is cloudy again. Take an "eyeball" return fitting off and run your finger around the inside of the pipe, with the pump off. If you get some slimy stuff on your finger, then you have water mold. It is also inside the filter. Only solution is to convert to chlorine. After the conversion you can go back to Bacquacil if you like. TIP: Let the Baquacil level diminish before you start the conversion. You'll get through the "uglies" much faster that way.
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my family owns a pool store and usually, those people that started using baquacil, usually only used it for about three years and then they started having problems that the chemical just could not get rid of and yes, almost all of them have now switched back to chlorine.
Our store is in Louisiana, and this is especially true if you live in an area with a warm climate.
my family owns a pool store and usually, those people that started using baquacil, usually only used it for about three years and then they started having problems that the chemical just could not get rid of and yes, almost all of them have now switched back to chlorine.
Our store is in Louisiana, and this is especially true if you live in an area with a warm climate.