Help with green pool and numbers

[JenLM]

Thank you! I do have the Taylor kit so I am able to monitor ph. My ph is up to 7.2 so I am going to add about 75 oz of borax according to the pool calculator? We'll keep shocking and vacuuming and hopefully we'll be in good shape soon. =)

Is there anything I can do for CYA?

[aylad]

Your two options for CYA are to just compensate with higher chlorine levels (which might actually decrease your daily chlorine loss, depending on how much sun your pool gets), or to drain/refill a little water to lower it. My personal advice would be to just compensate with chlorine for now (see the best guess chart linked in my sig for more info), don't use any stabilized form of chlorine, and let it lower itself due to backwashes and splashout. By mid summer you'll probably be down to the 50-ish range, where we advise people to keep it, anyway.

I intentionally keep mine in the 80-90 range because that's where I lose the least amount of chlorine to the sun, and it allows me to not have to dose my pool everyday, but my pool is in full sun in 90-110 degree temps during the summer.