Came here for education and help. With the heat wave hitting us I thought a pool would be a great way to cool down but then discovered the horror of filling it with our crappy well water. I bought an above ground 20' x 48" pool with a skimmer filter. So I'm filtering and trying to sort out the chemistry but it's way more of a struggle than I ever thought possible. Lots of iron, manganese, high pH, high TA, super cloudy brown water. Seems like every bug within a mile is coming for a drink and staying. I just ordered a better test kit than the test strips and will SLAM it and keep filtering. I built one of the bucket/poly fill filters running off a sump pump I had here and also using the sock method on the skimmer pump outlet. Not seeing a ton of progress yet but the filters are definitely catching plenty of brown Crud. Anyway, wish me luck.