The "BBB method" is just the name that took off -- it was NEVER my idea that people should always and only use bleach, borax and baking soda.

We home schooled both of my sons (the youngest is 17, and will finish next year), but we've NEVER told people it was the only way, or even the best way for everyone (it's NOT!). Ironically, my wife has been back teaching in public school for the last 7 years, because medical insurance costs were rapidly bankrupting us. And, she thinks highly of some of her colleagues. (Not so highly of the test-focused education the No Child, etc act has engendered!)

But, all that to say: if you are controlling your pH, monitoring your CYA, keeping your chlorine in appropriate Best Guess ranges, and staying algae free . . . it's all good!

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PS. Don't know if you follow such things, but my sons and I do, so here goes. I've known that the Higgs boson, which the geeks at the Large Hadron Collector think they've found, was called "the God particle", but I'd never bothered to find out why. It turns out Higgs is still alive and kicking, and never intended that name for his particle. Rather, he'd theorized that such a particle OUGHT to exist, but subsequently complained that no one could find the god-d### thing! News editors 'fixed up' his remarks, so that the "god-d### particle" that they couldn't find, became "the God particle"!

Names can get away from you!