Can anybody tell me what my GPM is for my equipment?

[mastamoon]

Update:

I finally got around to using the Slimebag to vacuum my pool. I hooked it up to the backwash/waste port and ran the hose to back into the pool. At first everything seemed great, I was finally going to have a clean pool floor! But about half way through I noticed the outside of the bag turning brown/green and slowly a greenish cloud started emanating from the bag. I figured it was still probably better than nothing so I quickly finished the rest of the pool.

The next hurdle/letdown was taking the bag out of the pool and seeing dark green water dump into the pool. I had read beforehand that people would end up trying to put a garbage bag around the slimebag before removing it from the pool. I suppose I will try that next time, but Ill have to be sure somebody is around to help me try and pull a garbage bag full of pool water out of the pool, I imagine it will be heavy.

The inside of the bag was disgusting! Lots of bits and pieces of debris and a dark green/brown sludge in the crease of the bottom of the bag. I washed it out pretty well by spraying the outside of the bag and watching the green water and debris drain. Cant get it totally clean however.

Knowing that it would take a day or so before I could actually see if I got most of the crap out of my pool, the spotless bottom of my pool made me happy but knew it would be short lived. A day later I was right. Although I would say it was MUCH cleaner than before, much cleaner than it would have been vacuuming normally into the filter.. plenty of crap ended up settling out of the water onto the bottom again.

So I guess this weekend I will vacuum again with it and see if it can handle whats left and try and get the bag out without it draining dirty water back into the pool. Although over the past few days, my pool water level is over the top of the skimmer so I was thinking I might just vacuum to waste as much as I can, I just hate wasting that much water knowing I might have to just put more water in if we go through another drought here in NJ.

I'm really tired an frustrated dealing with this pool. Costing me an arm and a leg in chemicals (buying like 10 3/4 gallon bottles of bleach a week) and still not able to just have a clean pool. Although I have the levels under control, it still stinks having people come over and letting them see a dirty pool.

Pictures.. well I'm sorry to say that I didn't get a good before/after shot. By the time I remembered I wanted some, I was half way done. The pictures I did take don't show my issues with the bottom of the pool or the bag all that well but here they are.








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[PoolDoc]

It's not completely clear to me: do you feel like the slime bag was worth it?

[mastamoon]

It did keep my pool cleaner than it would have been if I would have vacuumed normally into the sand filter. But isn't the perfect solution. Having cloudy water billow out of it when it gets dirty and having green water spill back into the pool when you try to get the bag out means having to do it again. Lets say it got 90% of the stuff out this time around. 10% back in the pool.. next time I use it i get 90% of the 10% out, leaving the remainder in the pool... as you can tell, I don't think it will every fully get my pool clean. Or maybe now that only 10% remains, the cleaned bag will handle the load better? Time will tell.

I think I will vacuum to waste without the bag until the water level gets low then finish with the bag if necessary.

[mas985]

My concern would be why you have green anything coming out of your filter. That seems like it could be live algae which is a problem for any filter/slim bag unless of course you kill it first. What are the FC, CC and CYA levels?

[mastamoon]

My concern would be why you have green anything coming out of your filter. That seems like it could be live algae which is a problem for any filter/slim bag unless of course you kill it first. What are the FC, CC and CYA levels?

I had an algae bloom a few months back. Ive been fighting to get it out of the pool ever since. It seems the dead algae settles on the floor and other algae form around it.

My CYA is in the mid 50's, FC I keep around 5-6, and when I get that level, I usually add 2 3/4 jugs of Walmart bleach, then let it fall again. Currently not using any tablets. CC is 0. PH is 7.4 - 7.6.