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Reviewed April 2007

Pool Tips™
Converting from Baquacil® to Baquacil® Ultra

You must read all of the Liability Agreement before taking any action, especially all safety and liability warnings.

The Baquacil Ultra program was developed to cure and prevent bioslime attacks that are not handled well by regular Baquacil. About 98% of swimming pools in the Northeast have some sort of bioslime somewhere in their systems. About 7% of those have a recurring difficult-to-cure bioslime growth.

Baquacil Ultra Sanitizer and Fungicide—about 15% stronger than Baquacil Sanitizer and Algistat, and about 25% more expensive to use. An added ingredient fights the slime.

Baquacil Ultra System Start-up—a one time use kit, mostly an additional dose of the added ingredients in the sanitizer and ClearGuard A.

Baquacil Ultra Test Kit—the same test kit as the regular one, except the booklet adjusts for using 15% less sanitizer, and uses the right product names.

Baquacil Ultra ClearGuard A—enhances your shock, makes it last longer, and creates hydrogen peroxide in your lines and filter system.

Baquacil Ultra ClearGuard B—breaks down the slippery catalase coating on the bioslime that protects it from ordinary pool chemicals. Allows shock, sanitizer, and ClearGuard A to remove the bioslime.

Who should use Ultra?

  1. Anyone fighting a bioslime problem. Cure it with System Start-Up, Shock, ClearGuard A, and ClearGuard B; then prevent relapses with Ultra Sanitizer, ClearGuard A and ClearGuard B.
  2. Anyone wanting extra protection. But here’s the problem: If you switch to Ultra Sanitizer with the weekly A and B, you are adding $75 per year per 10,000 gallons to fix something that isn’t broken. It will make your water clearer, and it’s better for your filter, but we couldn’t say it’s $75 better.

Chemicals to Start:

  1. If you are currently experiencing a bioslime attack, these are the wrong directions. See our Pool Tips™ on Bioslime II.
  2. Test for water balance and metals (at our water lab). If metals are higher than 2 ppm add ______ bottles of Baquacil Metal Control (at 1 bottle/10,000 gallons). Even if there are no metals present, add one bottle of Baquacil Metal Control to any plaster-finished pool.
  3. Add _______ boxes of Baquacil Ultra System Start-Up (at 1 box per 10,000 gallons, rounded up). There are two different ingredients in this box (step 1 and step 2) and both must go directly into the pool, with the filter running.
  4. Add ______ pouches of Baquacil Ultra ClearGuard A (at one pouch per 10,000 gallons, rounded up) directly into the skimmer, with the filter running.
  5. Add ______ pouches of Baquacil Ultra ClearGuard B (at one pouch per 10,000 gallons, rounded up) directly into the skimmer with the filter running.
  6. Continue running the filter for 24-48 hours.

Chemicals to Switch

Stop using Baquacil Sanitizer and start using Baquacil Ultra Sanitizer. Follow the Ultra Pool Care Guide instead of the Regular Pool Care Guide. Ultra Sanitizer is a little bit stronger than Baquacil Sanitizer, so the top up doses are slightly lower.

Chemicals to Continue

  • Shock monthly with one bottle of Baquacil Oxidizer per 10,000 gallons.
  • Add ClearGuard A and B weekly at one pouch each per 10,000 gallons.
  • Test weekly.
  • Add the weekly amount of Algaecide monthly or just discontinue altogether—Ultra is so powerful you can run with little or no algaecide.

Note: Baquacil Oxidizer and Baquacil Ultra Oxidizer are exactly the same; just the bottle color is different. Ultra Sanitizer is actually 15% stronger than Baquacil Sanitizer, so the Pool Care gives you slightly lower amounts of Ultra Sanitizer to add when needed. We have stopped carrying the Ultra Oxidizer because it came in a different-sized case and confused the heck out of customers, cashiers, and the warehouse.

What to do with your leftover Baquacil Sanitizer

It’s mostly the same as Ultra Sanitizer, but it doesn’t have the added ingredient that fights bioslime. If you continue to use Baquacil Sanitizer, you’re not using the Ultra Sanitizer, and that ingredient is not getting into your pool.

If you’re switching to prevent possible bioslime, just keep on using the Baquacil Sanitizer until you run out, then start with the System Start-Up and new Ultra Sanitizer. If you have a current problem or do not want to wait, stop using the Baquacil Sanitizer and add system Start-Up and Ultra Sanitizer the next time you need sanitizer.

Don’t throw away your old Baquacil Sanitizer. It’s valuable, and legally a Pesticide. Bring it to Hazardous Waste Day at your town dump, give it away, or sell it to a friend. Or, bring it to us for a full credit (if unopened, purchased within the last thirty days, and accompanied by a receipt) or partial credit (if not). Here’s what we’ll do:

Baquacil Sanitizer Returns Outside of Normal Return Policy:

Customer name, address, and phone must be put on a label and attached to the product. We will be testing returned chemicals for strength. If bottles are opened, returned without a receipt, or after normal return policy (30 days) the cashiers have a chart that will determine your credit. It’s not going to be full price, but it will be more than any other store would do.

Please let us help you, anytime.

IMPORTANT

Pool Size: ___________ Gallons Technician: ___________
Date: ________________

We write Pool Tips™ for the exclusive use of our own local customers. They are meant as a summary of general information, to be discussed in our store, with our staff, to determine which items are best for specific pools. Pool Tips™ are a trademark of Gull Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Our suggestions assume that you have given us a proper description of your pool's size, history and symptoms. Sometimes we can figure it out, sometimes we can't. Your doctor has years more training, far better diagnostic tools, and makes way more money—and sometimes he or she gets it wrong, too.

  1. Read all labels carefully, and only use chemicals exactly as described on the label. Never mix chemicals together outside of the pool. Some of them can cause a fire or explosion.
  2. Do Not follow any advice or suggestions here without coming into the store, customizing them to your specifics, and receiving them in writing.
  3. Do Not print these out or reproduce for any purpose whatever. They are all copyrighted, and we take our copyrights very seriously.
  4. Don't Blame Us for anything. It's free advice, and worth the price paid. We're trying to help, but pools are complex, and chemicals and electricity are dangerous.
  5. Our Best Advice: Go find a local pool dealer who knows what they are doing, become a steady customer, and give them a chance to learn about you and your pool. Pick a brand, pick a store, and stay with them.

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