Well, first off My name is John, I live in Pierre SD. I have never owned a pool other than the blow up small deals for the kids. I am married with 3 & 5 yo daughters. My wife and kids have very sensitive skin. So I ordered a pool from amazon 12ftx30 inches so I have 3200 gallons of WELL water in it. So like most of the well water people here I am not doing well in the pool department. ok what I did thus far. 1 I spent 200 bucks on a salt water machine to avoid the chlorine. 2. I bought 80 lbs of salt, which I dumped into the pool.. I bought 32ozs of a product called EZ clear for the manganese; dumped into the pool right away. 3. Shocked the pool, ouch bad idea I know. 4. Went back to the pool store and was told to drain the pool and start over. 5. drained half the water out. 6. Stopped there because I feel I am literally pouring money down the drain. As I type, every thing is off, pool is half empty and really want this to work out due to the coming flood and the parks and pool will be closed all summer. I am sure the YMCA will be full all the time, and besides that I like having my own. Glad to be here.