Please help with these numbers

[astargel]

FC 8
CC 0.5
pH 7.6
TA 120
CYA 53

Water is cloudy/white, can't see bottom since I added the chlorine.
Based on what I've read, it's dead algae.
Pump is running 24/7 x 1 day.
I'm thinking my numbers look good, just need to bump up and maintain FC to 15? Or should I go to 30 for super shock algae removal? Should I drop my alkalinity a bit? It's on the high side of normal according to my Taylor K-2006 manual.
TIA!

[Watermom]

Have you recently had an algae bloom? What are you using to chlorinate with? What is the volume of your pool? What type of pool is this --- vinyl, fiberglass, gunite, concrete? What kind of filter do you have and what size pump?

[astargel]

Woops, sorry, I left out the vital statistics lol
I just opened the pool for the season.
I use BBB method, but added 2 lbs of granulated shock when I fired up the pump.
Pool is 18' AG round, 52" walls (7,200 gallons?)
22" sand filter with a 1.5HP pump (I know the pump is too big for that filter, but it will have to do)

[aylad]

I wouldn't go to 30 if your CYA is 50-ish (don't know how you got 53 because the tests are way more subjective than that). It wouldn't hurt to go up to 15 just until that CC is gone. Make sure that you're backwashing the filter as your pressure indicates. You didn't give a reading for CH--if it's high, and the "granulated shock" you used was cal-hypo, then that may be the reason for some of the cloudiness. If the pool was really green before the shock, that's probably part of the cloudiness, too. If it's dead algae, then you should start to see some improvement before long. If it's calcium being too high, then the water will probably stay milky looking until you either partially drain/refill or drop your pH and alkalinity.

Janet

[Watermom]

Did you recently have an algae bloom?

[astargel]

I used tri chlor to shock. I averaged my cya number because it was between measurement lines.
So should I mess around with the alkalinity/pH and then worry about the rest?
I didnt think calcium mattered much in an AG vinyl lined pool but I will check it out.
I could see the bottom of the pool when I removed the winter cover but it had a slight tint, so I guess I did have a algae bloom.