First pool, might be our LAST...name says it all!

[aylad]

Awesome!! Sounds like you've got it under control--ain't it great?

If it's been 3 or 4 days since the last of your CYA dissolved from the sock, and you're still not registering CYA, then go ahead and add a little more. I don't remember offhand how much you put in, but you want to target 30-40 ppm in the pool, so go ahead and add the remainder of the dose. Give it 2-3 days after the last has dissolved, and then test for it again and see what you get.

When you top off the pool with well water, you might want to put a trichlor puck (just not one that contains copper--read the ingredient labels!!!) into the skimmer and add it there, so that you can drop as much of the iron out onto your filter as possible before it gets into the pool, sort of like you were doing when you first started to clear it up. That might cut down on the amount of metal sequestrant you're having to use, and make it easier to keep your chlorine up without browning of the water. You also might want to consider a pre-filter of some sort so that most of the iron can be filtered out before it ever gets to the pool....just an idea, but one worth thinking about if you plan to run the pool from well water for the duration.

Going to the pool store is a real adventure after you learn about pool care, huh? I have a really hard time keeping my mouth shut when I hear the conversations of the people in front of me......then I wait for the sales people to walk away, and give the customers the link to this site. Too bad they're the only ones in town that don't have copper in the trichlor and stock parts for my Polaris, otherwise I'd never even have to go in!!

Janet