Great job!! There's an awful lot of information here on this forum, but it really will make you a happier pool owner if you can take the time to try to digest as much of it as you can.

Just want to clarify--adding stabilizer will not clear up the pool. Chlorine clears up the pool, aided by metal sequestrant to keep the iron out of the way. What stabilizer does is keep the sun from depleting your chlorine, thus giving the chlorine more time to work on "gunk" in your water. Keeping stable chlorine numbers is what will get the water clean, but it's easier to keep them stable with stabilizer in the water. Make sense?

I'm glad to see you're using a drop kit and NOT relying on test strips--that's a huge lesson that people have a hard time learning, but you seem to have a pretty good grasp on what's going on.

Hang in there, keep filtering, and keep us updated!

Janet