We were lucky in that we found this forum before we purchased our 26K gallon AG pool. We also checked with other neighbors who had pools to find out what they were using and what they liked and disliked about their configuration.

We discovered pretty quickly from this forum and two of our neighbors that Baquacil was not the way to go. One neighbor is accumlutaing a very large sand pile. He discards the filter media from his sand filter every year because of the gunked up sand. The cost of the additional and frequent additives is only a benefit to the local pool stores that push this stuff.

We elected to keep it simple with an SWG and Pool Rover. We are very happy with our decision.