Hi everyone. Alkalinity level and ph levels are fine, but my pool water won't hold chlorine! I went through 8 1.42 gallons of bleach in 3 days. This was perplexing and had never happened before. To the eye the water looks OK, swimable. I wouldn't call the water cloudy, but let's say it doesn't have that sparkling crystal clear look to it. I took out my quality portable Taylor "chemical lab" that someone recommended I buy and tested for calcium hardness and CYA. Unless there is a typo on the Taylor directions, it states that 200-400 is a good reading. It took two drops of R-0012 for my pool water sample to change from red to blue. Directions say to multiply that # by 10 which gives me 20. A mere 20!? My CYA test, that was even worse! I added the appropriate chemicals, shook, and slowly filled the plastic tube with the black dot on the bottom with the water sample. Usually the black dot gets harder and harder to see. Not this time!! I filled that tube to the very top and could still see that black dot at the bottom as clear as day. That can't be good. Do I need to grab the checkbook and hit my local pool store guys? Or can these issues be resolved with products I can purchase cheaper at the grocery store? Thank you in advance for any help you can offer. (P.S. we did add about 6-8,000 gallons of fresh water to our pool upon opening it if that has anything to do with it). Sincerely, Jeannie