Hi Judy;

I did a bunch of editing on both yours and my posts, because they'd gotten hard to read, and because there was a lot of stuff that wasn't immediately relevant to your current situation.

Let me start by saying as plainly as I can: I don't know -- not for sure -- what's going on with your pool. I think I can guess, but I am not completely certain.

Next, I need to ask you to hand your husband that stupid Taylor book and ask him to hide it somewhere, where you can't find it. You're asking a bunch of questions, because you've read that book carefully. Unfortunately, that book is based on old-school pool company chemistry, and a lot of it is wrong, and some of what's not wrong, is irrelevant. In particular, the whole breakpoint chemistry concepts in there are so mis-applied that they are confusing your current situation no end. AFTER your pool is 'all-better' you can get with Chem_Geek in the China Shop, work out the fine points of chlorine-ammonia oxidation, and then reconcile what's going on with your pool, with the stuff in that dumb book. (When I sold the K-2006 directly, I threw out the book and the calculator, before I shipped the kits, to avoid this exact problem!)

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