Ok have an algae problem and I read the post on how to take care of it. I went out and bought a whole bunch of bleach and some dry acid. I lowerd my ph to about 7.4 before adding the bleach to get it to shock level. I put 3 gallons of bleach in which is what it said would get me to a fc level of 15. I checked in 30 min and I screwed up the test. It kept saying I didn't have any chlorine in the pool so I kept adding bleach. After adding 9 gallons of bleach I realized I was forgetting to add the second set of drops for the chlorine test. Now that I am testing it right the chlorine is pretty high. (My reader only goes to an fc of 5 so I diluted it 1 part pool water 3 parts purified water and it is still darker than 5 so I know my fc is above 20) The problem is that my PH level is now above 8.2. Is this because I have put so much bleach in. Do I need to put more ph reducer in before I add any more bleach?
FC - 20+
pH - 8.2
TA - 140
CYA - 40
FC - 20+
pH - 8.2
TA - 140
CYA - 40