Bacquacil is only good for one thing:

SENDING YOUR POOL STORE OWNER'S KIDS TO COLLEGE!

It is a very expensive trap. Expensive to use, expensive to maintain, expensive to get out of. It doesn't work very well, either.

Chlorine is easy, cheap, available at EVERY grocery store, and gets a bad rap because people (and pool stores) don't know how it works and what is and isn't irritating. I keep VERY high chlorine levels, but my pool doesn't smell of chlorine, nor does our skin get irritated, or our eyes sore.

Why? Because I know that Free Chlorine doesn't do these things--Combined Chloramines do, and I know how to keep CCs out of my pool.

So will you if you stick around!

There's no secret formula, secret handshake, or tinfoil hat needed. It's all just simple, straightforward common sense.