So glad I found the forums! Been reading like crazy today to learn how to get this chemistry thing down and since I haven't run across a question that is like what I have going on, I've got to bug you all.

We have an inground 10000 gal pool. Its 30 years old but the pool surface is really rough. The house belonged to my folks until late last year when we moved in just before Christmas. Pool maintenance was probably done very irregularly for the past couple of years. We are in central Texas....hot and sunny.

Before finding this site I purchased a Taylor 2005 kit, what can I add to it to make it equivalent to the suggested kits?

Anyway, we just added 3gal of bleach because the pool has some robust algae growth and I tested the rest of the chemicals;

FC ~20 it may be higher but i'm testing using the Taylor 2005 kit
Ph 7
Ph drop test 3
Alkalinity 115
Calcium 650 (we are on a well and have very hard water)
CYA 0

From reading other posts, I think i'm supposed to keep my fc levels above 15 until my algae is all gone, but since the sun is so bright here, should I be concerned about not having any cya to protect the chlorine levels?

Then after the algae is cleared up the raise the Ph with borax while I let the fc levels drop a bit.

Thoughts or suggestions on how i'm going about this?