Hello I opened my pool about a month ago so it would be ready when nice weather hit. The past two years we had run the Perma Salt system and I noticed that towards the end of the season last year I started having some green algae show up. I have been wanting to take the Perma Salt system off ever since I found this site and the BBB method, but I just couldn't talk the wife into it. So this year I convinced her that the cartridge in the system had went bad and was going to cost too much to replace, so I've won that battle. I didn't have a test kit to start with this year so I went to the Pool Store and got the water tested. I began the shock process and used Walmart 7.86% bleach and the pool started turning from GREEN to turquoise blue pretty quickly. I gave it a little while and poured some more in there and I got lucky and the pool cleared up. I could see the bottom and the pool was actually pretty clean and clear. Well I intended on ordering a test kit, and we had a series of monsoons for about 2 weeks and it turned cold again. Well I let the pool go again and it was actually more GREEN than before last Friday. I went and purchased a test kit from Leslies last Friday and tested the water and of course I had no Chlorine in the pool so I started shocking again. I used The Pool Calculator to obtain the correct dosage for the shock level. Now the water is no longer green but is very cloudy. I normally shock overnight, but yesterday I brought it to shock level which was 16 but I calculated for a level of 18, and by yesterday evening it was down to 5. I thought that was actually pretty good considering the amount of sun that we had yesterday. I checked the level this morning and it was at 3. Do I need to keep shocking the pool or what do I need to do to get it sparkling clean and clear. Here are my current test results.
FC - 3
CC - 0
PH - 7.5
TA - 100
CH - 100
CYA - 40
FC - 3
CC - 0
PH - 7.5
TA - 100
CH - 100
CYA - 40