Baquacil pool has cloudy water and white stuff floating in it how can you fix it?

Answer 1

To get rid of water mold in a Baquacil pool, the best thing to do is add Water Clarifier to the skimmer with the filter running, add Flocculant as a filter aide, let filter 8-12 hrs, vaccum to waste, and then chemically clean the filter. It is very important to chemically clean the filter because while you are backwashing the water mold will cling to the filter and if it is not chemically clean it will filter back into the pool and start to form again. I have an email from some one with this problem it may be helpful to you

We live in New Mexico where our pool season runs approximately seven months. It gets hot starting in June and stays with daytime highs in the 90's until mid-September. We use Baquacil (biguanide) or basically a peroxide based product in our pool. A lot of people are abandoning this system due to the mold/algae problems that seem to eventually develop with it. I don't know what they're pool maintenance routine is, but I do not believe any system will give you a pour and ignore environment. One still has to do routine maintenance to have a sparkling pool. We were close to converting to chlorine due to the problems we were having, but the Dragonfly has helped to bring the problem to a virtual halt. It has also greatly minimized the need for brushing the sides as it really does collect a lot of the debris that once accumulated on the bottom of the pool. We use a sand filter which runs 12 hours a day.

I don't know where water mold comes from. I've been told it's in the water itself, I've been told it's in the air. All I know is it comes from somewhere and there was nothing more disgusting than these large floating island masses of slimy strings in the pool. You can chemically treat the water with everything in the book and they do not go away. They live on the surface and unless you can strain the surface of the water through a sock, the problem persists. They also foster all the other nasties that like to invade the water and make it unsightly. If you cure one, it appears you cure them all. Your Dragonfly is my remedy. I thank you.

You more than have my permission to use any praise that I have bestowed upon your invention.

I spent a lot of money on chemicals (roughly doubled what should have been spent the past two years) and did not have a positive outcome with any of them. Last year in a two week period we poured 14 gallons of oxidizer (shock) in the pool to combat the water mold. With all this product in the pool, the shock still would not register on the water test, the "little things" were just gobbling it up! You could not stand close to the pool because of the chemical odor and it did not help at all. We ended up just closing it in July in disgust and not wanting to literally pour more money down the drain. This year, our pool is still clean and sparkling and doesn't have a ton chemicals floating around in addition to not looking good or smelling good. The Dragonfly works, plain and simple.

And, we are using less chemicals at this time. Not a big difference yet but a difference. We use less sanitizer and algaecide. This may not seem like much, but I think it's miraculous.

Answer 2

It sounds like you have mustard algae. You have to kill the algae, then most likely you will have to add floculant to get it to settle to the bottom. Then vaccumm to waste.

Above could be very wrong... You most likely have a DE filter and there is a bad filter grid ~ torn. Remove and replace, add proper DE. Add some extra chlor.

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Answer 3

As a result of the business I am in I have been sent a letter from some one that had a lot of trouble with his baquacil pool that you may find helpful. I shall put it in the discus section of this answer.

Answer 4

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If the pool has a pump, try a surfactant.