Thank you for the replies!..I'll admit, my head tends to spin a little when I read and try to take all this in..but I'm gaining in understanding. I need to make my signature, and I will soon. But here's my situation right now, and my questions!!
I have added a chlorine stablizer, and to date with 13 days of water in it (4000 gal)..I have used 2 lbs of hth super shock, just put the second trichor tab in the floater...I have altogether put in 2 quarts of 8.25 house bleach, hydorchlorite?..anyway, i didn't do this all at once..over the last two evenings is when i added the stablizer and liquid bleach.
this morings reading with two inferior tests are
test strip:****************3-way test with drops
FC 5/10 ****************CL 5 Br 10
pH 7.8 ****************pH 7.5
TA 80
TH 200
cya 30-50
aren't these good numbers? the water looks clear to a novice like me...but i have patches of powdery stuff on the bottom, when i kick at them, they just turn to powder and float away..I am in Oklahoma, very hot, humid and has been very windy, the pool is downwind from a blacktop road, but dust has to be blowing over the pool all day. My pump is only 1000 gal., Type A or C cartidge filter. i had not been running it all the time but I am now..I haven't done the vacuum sock thing yet...and I've changed the filter 3 times already!! they looked dirty to me. The pool does have a skimmer.
I don't think I'm courting disaster yet, walmart and online are pretty much the only means for me to get supplies, and so far it's gonna be a bit before i can get the good test kit..will the t-50 be good, since I already have to other ways to test the pH?
Um..that's all I can think of right now. I have to go work in the shop right next to the pool, and pretend it's not there...at least till after 3.
Thanks for your help!!
lisa