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I have an 18’x9’x48” rectangular above ground intex pool that came with the smaller sand filter pool pump. This was somewhat ok in the first few months but with the size of the pool I’ve got it just did not filter the water enough no matter how much I ran it. This 16” pump pushed out some water. The photos are exactly 7 days apart. My chlorine was high but I needed to add some acid and algaecide. Important in this equation was to brush the sides of the pool after adding the chemicals. This broke it all up and allowed it to be properly filtered. It would have probably cleared up a couple days sooner but I did not have the brush so it was not pulled off the side. I ran the pump 10 hrs a day for that first week and could have run it longer but the brush was definitely necessary. The pump is easy to install if you are trading out one intex pump for the other as the tubing and fittings were all included. I kept one tubing to use as the backwash hose even though it’s short it doesn’t shoot the green water straight out in front of the pump this way. The timer works great but to set it you press the lock button twice while it is running. It will flash the timer amount and you can adjust that way. I tried the instructions method and could not get it to work. And finally, I ran the backwash and rinse often as you can tell from my pictures it was needed.