Ok, I have a couple of additional questions for you..
1)what kind of chlorine have you been 'dumping in"? Cal-hypo, dichlor, bleach? What type of chlorine do you normally use for daily chlorination?
2)what is your stabilizer level?
3) what did you add from the pool store for phosphates? (I know you know it wasn't necessary, but at this point we need to know what it was to correct whatever it did to your pool chemistry).
Your pH reading is high, but pH reads falsely high in the presence of high levels of chlorine, so I wouldn't try to adjust that right now. At least you know you're in the ballpark.
Don't worry about the color change on the alk test--I'll have to search the forum to make sure, but I believe it's the presence of the phosphate remover that is changing your colors. The test still works the same, though, so your alk at 120 is fine for now.
So if your water is still cloudy blue, run your filter 24/7, brush the pool at least once a day, vacuum up anything you can see on the bottom, and resist the temptation to put anything else other than chlorine in the pool. Remember that it took more than a day or two to create the lagoon effect, and it's going to take more than a day or two to clear it up. The chlorine that you put in kills the algae, but it is the filter that removes the dead algae (hence the cloudiness) from the pool. Keep an eye on your pressure gauge, clean your filter as it indicates, and be patient--it will clear up
Janet
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