Apart from the fact that a bag of minerals cost $60 vs $10 for standard salt which can add up to $200-300/year in cost, I've found it to be hard to maintain and test for water hardness when using minerals, which leads to calcium scaling, which is hard to get off the pool interior and builds up inside heater and can destroy them slowly (not covered by warranty). They also give a weird chemical taste to the water.So, I keep away from Mineral pools such as Magnapool. There's nothing wrong with standard salt.
If you do want to switch, you can do it slowly by adding Magnesium Chloride in lieu of standard pool salt. Eventually it will be replaced. Mixing it is no problem. You could drain the pool and start again with Minerals but there's really no need.
My advice is just take a bath with Epsom salts if you're after the claimed health benefits (such as soothing the skin) as you'll have a much higher concentration of it than you would in a pool.
Apart from the fact that a bag of minerals cost $60 vs $10 for standard salt which can add up to $200-300/year in cost, I've found it to be hard to maintain and test for water hardness when using minerals, which leads to calcium scaling, which is hard to get off the pool interior and builds up inside heater and can destroy them slowly (not covered by warranty). They also give a weird chemical taste to the water. So, I keep away from Mineral pools such as Magnapool. There's nothing wrong with standard salt.
If you do want to switch, you can do it slowly by adding Magnesium Chloride in lieu of standard pool salt. Eventually it will be replaced. Mixing it is no problem. You could drain the pool and start again with Minerals but there's really no need.
My advice is just take a bath with Epsom salts if you're after the claimed health benefits (such as soothing the skin) as you'll have a much higher concentration of it than you would in a pool.