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I need a pump for a 32x16 ft above ground oval pool. It's roughly 4.5 ft deep so about 15,000 gallons. Is there a recommended HP I need? 1 hp, 1.5hp, etc?

I added some CYA and would like to test the water, but Pool School says to wait a week before testing. I'm curious as to why it takes a week for CYA to show up on test results.

Yea, I'm not really sure what happened my self. I know when I added the first batch of chlorine it turned into a cloudy mess and then I vacuumed everything out the next day a couple times (to waste) while pounding it with chlorine. The next morning it was looking good and then today I feel...

So I'm gonna test this tomorrow morning. Looking good!

Will do, I gotta get to brushing, thanks!

I just slammed my green pool the last couple nights and I woke up to clearness with no cloudyness from what I can see. Should I still use a water clarifier or just leave it as is? I'm just not sure if a clarifier should be used to catch whatever I can't see or if it's fine.

I did use pucks last year. Are you saying I'm going to need a ton of bleach/chlorine to fix this? There's no hope? lol. I'm confused about the ammonia.

I'm planning on getting a test kit, but in the meantime I had the pool store test the water: Total chlorine: 0.4 Free chlorine: 0.0 Ph: 7.0 Alkalinity: 90 Calcium Hardness: 75 CYA: 0 Pool is 14,000 gallons, sand filter, above ground. I've read the pool school, but would still like opinions...

Wow I didn't expect to get a response that fast, thanks everyone. I've gone through Pool School and it seems like the idea is to Slam to start the season and then check daily or every other day for what needs to be adjusted to get FC based on that calculator in this site. I've always been...

I'm fairly new pool care and I've seen tons of posts regarding high CYA levels. I plan on shocking my pool with Sodium Hypochlorite (liquid chlorine) to open it. Why not just shock it every week with this stuff to keep chlorine levels up? How is everyone keeping the CYA from getting too high...