Echo Canyon OR Pacifica AG Pool

[pool newby]

I have the Pacifica 18' round from Rec Warehouse, and am very pleased with it. It's our first pool, and I really like having the 25 gauge liner with 2 small kids, at least it gives me a little extra piece of mind. We also got the 26 inch baquapure high rate sand filter with 2.5 hp pump hi/lo speed. My only gripe with Rec Warehouse was that they really tried to push the baquacil on us, and gave us the baquacil startup kit, and as well as our filter/pump combo were all nicely labeled for baqua products. Lucky, I had about a week before the installation to find this forum and talk to others who had used/were using baquacil, and decided never to start my pool on the stuff, and go chlorine from the start. I've since converted to BBB, and couldn't be happier with our pool.

[medvampire]

I have the Artesian Echo Canyon 24 ft. I did a lot of reading on the N2 system and have removed it from my pool. I would do just chlorine and drop the N2. Have them give you some other goodies. I did the non return pool light. I would get the pro install. Have them throw you in a good test kit.
As for upkeep. I spend about 20 minutes each day to check chems and adjust chlorine with bleach. I grab the net and pull leaves. I adjust ph on the week end. Saturday morning I have my oldest drop in the vacume and babysit it for about 3 hours and go swim.
Echo Canyon is the best bang for the buck in the Artesian line.
Have fun, enjoy your pool, let us know what you do.
Steve