- Jun 15, 2009
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Sorry if this has been asked before. I have read some posts and didn't understand. We finally got our pool ready after trouble with leveling it out. I did a test on it today. We have the 3-way test kit from Walmart. The Bromine and the Free Chlorine reading are the same the way I understand it. When I first put the water in and added the drops and inverted several times to mix, it read 3.0 to 6.5, then after about 5 mins, it read 5.0 to 11.0. I have been trying to figure out what is what with it and what i need to do to get my pool right. My pool is one of those round pools from Walmart that is 12ft diameter and 3 ft deep. How many gallons is that and how can you tell? And we have some kind of a little red worm floating around in our pool. Last week, I just dropped one of those single chlorine tablets from Walmart in it. Today, it still wasn't all the way dissolved. What is the difference between the bromine test and clorine test, since they are done the same? And do I need to put the chlorine tablets in the water or can I add them to the pump? Is there a difference? Any tips would be nice. And our pool is near a walnut tree. And we get all kinds of leaves in it. It's the only place we have to put the pool. And we have a cover for it from Walmart, is this what they call a solar cover? And there are holes built into the cover and then water gets ontop of the cover and it's a pain to get it off of the pool. Do all covers have holes in them? It's not many holes. Any info would be helpful. Thanks so much.....