I'm guessing that you're using a 5- or 6-way drop kit from WalMart. If so, you're not going to have a bromine reading, since yours is a chlorine pool, so ignore that. When you ran the alk test, did 6 drops just barely change the color, or did you add the 7th drop to make sure that it wouldn't change further? When you say chlorine was unreadable, do you mean clear, or very dark yellow/orange/brown? Were you able to run a CYA test? If so, what did it give you?

In order to get the pool cleared up, you're going to have to be able to test your chlorine and understand what your levels are.

You might want to take a sample to the pool store and get them to test it for you, just to get a baseline on all the chemicals levels right now, and then maybe we can help you get the chlorine issue straightened out.

Janet