If I looked at the sand in the filter, what should I see?

[waterbear]

Seems like someone didn't like my posts in this thread since I got some negative reputation for it....but my advice seems to have solved Aquariums problem with his sand. No one else seemed to have any advice for him on what to do to fix it. I will gladly take some negative reputation if my advice is useful and solves a problem, even if it is not popular. After all, the purpose of this forum is to help people solve the problems they have with their pools! No one else seemed to be able to step up to the plate and take a swing.

Aquarium, you might want to consider adding a bit of DE to the filter now. It will improve the filtering ability by lodging between the sand grains and allow you to filter much smaller particles. When you back wash the DE will backwash out along with the dirt.