I've been reading this forum and the posts referencing the brown or tan "goo" which tends to form. I've had my spa now for a year and I have always been on BaquaSpa (quite happily). Using the "waterline control" product successfully results in no "goo" at the waterline (I've learned my lesson early on). However, now my filter tends to become gunked with what I believe is the same stuff. The interesting part is that I've been having more problems with this "goo" in the past few months than I did when the spa was new. In fact, even though I cleaned the filter throughly, the water started turning brownish only several days after this last time I drained and refilled the spa and the filter has already started accumulating the "goo" (though there's none at the waterline). I will try a new filter on the next drain/refill cycle but I hate to keep doing this at the $60 a pop for the 100 SF filter that my spa uses if this is the only solution. So, I have some questions I hope someone will be willing to answer:
Any ideas why would I be having this problem lately when I didn't have this problem 6-12 months ago? (I think I'm doing everything the same way I always have been.)
Could the tan or brown "goo" accumulating on the filter, and seemingly being dispersed in the water, be anything else besides the "goo" which is apparently prevalent with the BaquaSpa system?
Is there anything else I can check or do to reduce this tendency to develop the "goo"?
Thanks in advance !!