Sand Filter or Cartridge?? Which is better?

[b2001]

What if I bought a Sand system and hooked up a cartridge sytem to it.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a post on this forum in the past advising against that.

But here's an idea. I told you I was going to replace my cartridge filter with a sand filter. What I believe that I am really going to do is get a sand filter and hook it up in parallel with the cartridge filter. I would use parallel piping and cutoff valves so that only one filter at a time is on. I would run the sand filter most of the time because of ease of maintenance poconos refers to and occasionally run the cartridge filter for the "polishing".

I'm not sure I would recommend someone buying two filters as a starter because of the costs vrs. the benefits, but I already have a cartridge filter and I'm planning on buying a sand filter. so I thought I would try to take advantage of the perceived advantages of each. Based on my troubles, I'm still thinking that I will be better off with a sand filter, but I know a cartridge would filter out those very fine particles, after the sand has done most of the work - and I already have one.