Ok, not alot of success on my pools condition. Frankly I seem to have regressed...

The temps here have been dropping over the past couple of weeks and we've seen our first hour or two of rain this year here in California. Not sure if either of those have to do with my problems but here goes.

On Saturday I noticed a significant amount of algae collecting on the walls of the pool. I used the brush to stir up the pool and ran the pump for the next 24 hours. Turned the sanitizer's output on 24 hr max mode and also added one pack of chlorine shock (only rated for a 10,000lbs pool but it was all I had on hand).

On Sunday I bought some more chemicals and retested the water. Now Chlorine measured over 5 ppm and some of the green seemed to be reduced. However, total alkalinity hasn't really come down. I added two gallons of muriatic acid, one on Thursday and the second on Friday. I've made all my readings using the 10mL Taylor test. On Thursday total alkalinity was 11 drops =~ 275 ppm. On Saturday the pool had come down to 10 drops and after another gallon of acid, today the pool is measuring at 9/10 drops still which is =~ 250 ppm... So that doesn't seem right.

Theres actually some bugs swimming in the pool, too. So that's pretty gross! I bought CYA, some Algaecide/Clarifier and more shock. The clarifier says I need to wait til the Cl drops and today it is still ~ 4-5ppm and hasn't really fallen much. I'm running the pump 6 hours a day at this point and still havn't added any CYA since I'm trying to get the CL level to drop (?).

So what all am I doing wrong? :/