The 6-way walmart test that I was referring to, for the hardness: When you add the 5 drops of the Hardness indicator, the water is supposed to turn red to indicate presence of hardness, then you are supposed to add drop by drop and swirl to mix until the water turns blue... the red color never came, when I added the 5 drops of the indicator the water turned yellowish... I did this 4 times, then a 5th time, I decided to add 10 drops of the indicator, and THEN the water turned red... Now that I got the pool store readings, I suspect the walmart test went bad on me, or something like that...
BTW, sorry, I didn't know I should keep the posts in the same thread!! Won't happen again! =)
The last numbers I posted, where the CyA came to 100 were done at Warehouse Pool Supply, where I asked them to test everything possible anew, specifically for CyA, since I'd have problems with high levels of it. They did it all in front of me, and they used drops for everything. They said "Oh, your numbers all look fine, you shouldn't have to do anything for now"
My thoughts: SERIOUSLY!!??!! Isn't 100 too high for CyA!?!? :? So, anyway,
I guess I'll have to drain some more water to be sure. :|
To answer someone elses' question, No, I have not added anything other than 6% chlorine from walmart since last wednesday/thursday, emptied my chlorinator of the tablets, so only chlorine!!!
The chlorine seems to be holding up and the black algae spots have dissappeared. I still added two more jugs this morning to keep the shock levels up and will continue brushing and keeping an eye on those algae sopts.
Thanks again for all your help and support... I will get there... right?? hehehe