Quote Originally Posted by Watermom View Post
Can you tell us more about your situation? Do you have a drops-based test kit? Test strips are pretty worthless. Can you post a complete set of current water testing results? What are you using to shock and chlorinate with ---meaning ingredients.

Repost with info requested and someone can help you go from there. Welcome to the Pool Forum!

Thanks! Its actually a 13' metal frame pool, I avoided the blowup pool after seeing the neighbors smaller one burst like a water baloon.

i use a drop kit, its just the hth 3 way kit. when i opened my pool 3 weeks ago i did take my water to a local pool place and they also mentioned the CYA would be in my best interests.

Right now just using the "starter" kit for pop up pools from HTH.. the shock n swim, and the granulated chlorine, ph is 7.5 constant (no rain here in oklahoma in quite some time) and my chlorine is usually 1-3. I do add it at night and let the filter run a bit to circulate.

thanks for the welcome