Thanks for the voice of reason. Due to everything I have read on here, I know better, but she was a a very good saleslady. Although, she told me not to add bleach to my pool, that it would bleach my liner. I finally gave up, bought my leaf rake and brush and left.

I'm not sure they will take the Banish back, but I will try, just as soon as I am armed with photos of my clear pool.

Last year I used 12% liquid chlorine only. I may have added 1 pound of walmart shock to put some stabilizer in but I am so leary of stabilizer because of problems I had with my old pool. I did add one pack of it this year, but that is all stabilizer wise. No tabs, sticks, or stablized chlorine. My source for the liquid can get it for me for routine chlorination and weekly shocking, but not in the quantities needed to fix my current problem.

They ran tests yesterday, but they were the strips tests read by the computer. They gave me a huge list of things I needed to buy. She wanted me to buy 8 bags of some power shock they had(at $5.95 each). It was 56% available....dichlor. I bought cal hyp on Monday. I also bought, but already used 4 of the 1.42 gal jugs at walmart. I hope my rambling is understandable. I am still dipping leaves and some type of gooey sludge. It could be rotting leaves or the poor tadpoles We got the first foot of leaves out with a skimmer net. I wished I knew about a leaf rake....it is worth its weight in gold. The test she ran yesterday said I had no stablizer, but that my total alkalinity and calcium were low. I would be glad to post the numbers if you don't think they are worthless.