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Ok! Got it drained. Going to fill tomorrow. Do we test the water before putting anything in it and go from there? Or go ahead and put some amount of bleach and CYA right off the bat? How much bleach (ballpark) should we buy? Thanks so much for all the advice and encouragement!

Water is cheap! When we refill, just add CYA granules, bleach, and?

My husband bought some Crystal Care Clarifier at Academy. There are no ingedients on the bottle. What does it do and does it work?

What is the Crystal Care Clarifier that we boughy at academy? There are no ingredients on the bottle...

Ph is 7.2, chlorine is 0. Total alk 140. Havent drained it yet. Still trying to fix it. Our daughters hair turned green..mild, but still green. Ive been reading about copper and how to get rid of it. Should we mess with copper chelators or still think drain and refill?

Thank you very much. Now i know the reason we are having an issue (the copper in the algaecide), because it did turn our daughters hair green. So once we drain and refill, what do we put in the pool? A pakcet of shock or just chlorine tabs?

Ok, are you suggesting to drain it because of the bromine level (which is now back to 0), or because we put in too much of the algaecide in the beginning?

Just want a small, simple, chlorine pool. I don't know where the bromine came from on the test, but it was high earlier. I wonder if the algaecide had it or what? I really don't know. I read the basics of the ABC Chemistry just now. Still not sure where to go from here. My husband does want...

So we decided to get an above ground pool for the summer. Its an Intex 14' x 42". We got it levelled and put up and filled. We swam in it for a great first week before we got around the getting chemicals in it. We went to the pool store and the lady there anazlyzed a water sample. She told...