Good. Glad to hear the muriatic acid was being used properly. By the way, what kind of kit do you have and what is the upper limit on its ability to test chlorine?
Since you have a kit at home, I want you to test morning and evening and if you are home, in the afternoon as well. Each time, add enough bleach to take the cl back up to around 10-12ppm. With gunite, you don't have to be as conservative since you don't have to worry about bleaching out a liner. Run the pump 24/7 and clean the cartridge as needed.
Your calcium hardness is on the low side. (You want it between 200-400.) Since the pool is cloudy, my advice is to just use bleach for now until the cloudiness clears up and then you can use some cal-hypo for awhile as your source of chlorine until the hardness reading comes up into range.
You will also need some CYA, sometimes called stabilizer. You many be able to buy this at Walmart, just make sure if you find it there that it isn't mixed with anything else. Sometimes Lowe's or Home Depot will have it and of course pool stores do. You want the ingredients to be cyanuric or isocyanuric acid. You're going to need about 8 lbs. You can either hang it in a sock in front of the return jet and leave the pump running 24/7 until it dissolves, giving it a squeeze every now and then to help it along. Or, you can add it to slowly to the skimmer to avoid clogging it up and let it dissolve in the filter. Then, leave the pump running 24/7 for at least 4 to 5 days to give it time to dissolve. (If your filter pressure is still rising a lot and you are having to do frequent cleanings, you might not want to add it to the skimmer or otherwise you will be losing it when you wash the cartridge.) That amount should take you to around 40ppm. CYA is kind of like sunscreen for your chlorine. It keeps your chlorine from being lost to the sun too quickly. A week after it is added, test for it and post the reading.
When you get to the point where you can go from sundown one day until sunup the next morning without losing more than 1ppm of cl, then we'll know you don't have any algae in the water.
Hope this helps. Ask if you have more questions.

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