Just Set Up Pool...Need some pointers

[JSMANNING0001]

Thanks Carl...I will stick with those ... I didn't think that calcium mattered from reading everything on here but when I called the pool place to see if they had the kits I was looking for before I drove an hour their, I read her my stick and she said I needed to get calcium in right away or the water being to hard would rust/eat my pump up along with my metal.... guess not?

I am mainly focussing on the pH FC and CC levals and gonna put in some CYA tonight in a sock. Can I just hang it from the ladder which is about 3 foot away from part that puts the water back in the pool (sorry still get used to the lingo..) I really don't have a way to hang it around the part that shoots it out as it is almost flat....do I have to run my pump 24/7 with that?

Do I need to get the cc/cya levels right and then worry about pH? My pH is currently around 7.8...will get better reading tonight with the better strips.

Gonna go add about 35oz of bleach cause it's showing almost clear with no faint signs of yellow....can't keep the choline in their to save my life... then again...can't hardly understand this $5 drop test from walmart. barely has any shade variance.


EDIT: Added the 35oz of chlorine and checked immediatly... .... it said 5ppm I know that was too soon to test and I tested on the other side of the pool but I just had to see if that thing was working cause I can't seem to get it above 1ppm. How soon after adding bleach should I actually be testing?