Welcome to TFP, Mah2496! Congratulations on the new pool.
Many of us here love our fiberglass pools and don't consider them a "problem" whatsoever. Mine couldn't be any easier to take care of since it uses a salt water chlorine generator, and the robot cleaner does all the brushing for us these days.
You'll need one of the test kits we recommend- either the TF-100 or the K-2006C. You can see them at
TFTestkits.net
Until you get the pool in and filled it doesn't make sense to stock up on any chemicals....most of us here buy what we need for the pool either at the grocery store or the hardware store. We rarely buy anything from the pool store believe it or not! Your water might not need much in the way of tweaking, so until you have your own test kit and can test your water we won't know.
The only things I would say to have on hand is a couple of jugs of bleach to hit the water with before the SWG takes over or liquid chlorine (Walmart pool chlorine 10% is a good buy) and some stabilizer (CYA, cyanuric acid) which is a granular product. You can buy that from Lowes or Walmart. Don't buy any CloroxBlu products as they contain bad stuff (copper, eeeck!)
which you do not want in your pretty pool.
Keep us up to date with the build and any questions
Maddie
