When do you need to shock your pool??

You don't have Bromine in your pool, so you can disregard that reading. Just read the Chlorine side. When you put the CYA into your pool, either add it though the skimmer, or put it in a tube sock in the skimmer or tied in front of a return. Either way you add it, follow the label directions to get up to about 20 ppm for your side pool, and don't backwash or re-test for it for at least a week. It takes a LONG time to dissolve. In the meantime, you're going to have to keep adding chlorine nightly so that the sun doesn't wipe out all of your Cl while you're waiting on your stabilizer to dissolve.

Janet

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Never mind. :)

I don't think I bought the correct chemical. What I have is Shock Plus by Aqua Chem.
Ingredients are:
sodium dichloro-s-triazinertrione, 58.2%
Other ingredients, 41.8%

That isn't the right thing, is it...?

There wasn't a lot of pool chemicals left, and I was thinking this was the right one.

It sounds like what you have is shock, not stabalizer.

CYA is cyanuric acid, stabalizer.. at my pool place they called it water conditioner... it goes by different names on the bottle but what you are looking for is cyanuric acid. You may need to go to a pool place to get this one chemical for the pool. Look at the BBB pool thread, there you will find out what you do for your pool.

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Originally Posted by gerri

Look at the BBB pool thread, there you will find out what you do for your pool.

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I live in a small community and the nearest pool place is quite a drive. I'll check all of the stores here and see if I can find the right chemical.

Can you provide a link for that particular thread? I would appreciate it.

I have been using the website's directions on Kiddie Pool care. Along with the help I've been getting here the pool is a lot better.

Here you go:

The BBB thread
http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=1652