We found a house with a pool. As the at home spouse I had to take care of it. I got rid of all five fish tanks (100, 60, 50, 30, & 10 gallon planted tanks with discus and other freshwater fish) and left behind the 300 gallon goldfish pond. The new house and pool would be work, I was done with fish.
In searching for pool information I found TFP. It was clear immediately that this was a friendly helpful place. I sat up at night reading the archives from top to bottom, maybe 47 pages in the longest set at that time.
Even so, I used strips and tabs all that winter and the pool was overstabilized by April when I got a real test kit. I know it had been drained and filled post hurricane so it was perfectly balanced in November when we moved in.