Help with balancing new pool

[Bpursley]

We had our pool recently installed and opened. I am from Canada and having difficulty getting a tfp100 or taylor k2006c kit right now, hopefully solve for that soon. I’ve been left with test strips for now (I know I know). My issue is my fc has been testing at pretty well zero for the last few weeks but the water is crystal clear. It is a swg that I kept turning up but the tests kept coming back the same. My pump runs 24 hours at 55% (I will be adjusting this but currently electricity is very cheap so I haven’t started playing with it yet as I wanted the pool to balance out) we had the solar blanket on the last week and weren’t swimming in it. I tested it at fc-3, then this morning it was showing 10 so I turned down swg and pulled back the cover as our backyard gets sun all day. Retested tonight and it is showing zero again, tested twice both times. Is there anything I can do in the mean time until I get get a proper test kit.

Test tonight
fc-0
Ph- 7.2
Ta- 80
Cya-40 ( I added some stabilizer based on the app to bring this up)

new to all of this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mknauss]

Tough to say with test strips. We hesitate to provide guidance based on them.

Only two things eat chlorine, organics or sunlight. Organics takes a SLAM Process, sunlight takes more CYA. Up to you how you approach it.

 

[Bpursley]

With having sun exposure for 12 hours in the back yard in the summer should I be aiming for slightly higher cya? Keeping it on the higher end of the recommendation.

thanks