I’m with y’all!! The way I see it, you have nothing to “gain” by helping me, just doing it out of the goodness of your hearts. So, I trust your judgement. And, your judgement saves me mega bucks. Or atleast it will when my water gets clear. Oh, I forgot, she also, told me that my "conversion" is complete. How can that be if my baq shock is still 51? & why is it still 51 after all the cl i have dumped in there?

Ok, this a.m.
Cya still looks to me: 90, I can’t see the black dot when it gets to this point.
Alk: I have no clue, drop test kits says to put 25 ml of pool water, add 2 drops thiosulfate, stir, add 5 drops alk1, stir, add alk2 dropwise, counting & stirring between each drop til it turns from green to red, then multiply # of drops by 10, & that = alk. So, after 5 drops, blue, after 20 drops, yellow, after 30 & 35 drops, still yellow. Never saw red. So, I just tried the test strip, for the heck of it, it shows 80ish.
Chlorine: I am NO good at this.. I did test normal. Looked darkest pink, which is 5, tried diluting 5 to 1, still looks like a 5? But surely my cl is not 25 or 30? Is there an easier way for testing the cl?
p.h.: 6.8-7.0

But, all being said & done, I do see a MILD improvement in water. It has more of a blueish tint to the cloudiness now. Still a little green tint, but not nearly as bad as it was.

Thank you so much.
I think I am getting close too!!