Your most critical problem right now, is the low pH. Any pH reading below 7.0 is acidic and can damage the pool. You need to bring it up ASAP. Go to Walmart and pick up several boxes of 20 Mule Team Borax (laundry aisle) and a couple of boxes of baking soda. They may have the large bags of baking soda in the pool supply aisle. Also, while you are there, get several jugs of plain, unscented household laundry bleach (generic is fine). See if they have an OTO/Phenol Red kit (yellow and red drops) or an HTH 6-Way kit (not test strips.) These kits will suffice until you can get a good kit. (We recommend the Taylor K-2006 or 2006C but it is only available online. See the testkit link in my signature below.)
We also need to know exactly what all you have put into the pool, meaning ingredients and not just 'shock' or 'blue stuff,' etc.
When you repost, please tell us what type of pool this is, volume and size of pump. Create a signature line (see link in my signature below) and put all this info in there along with the type of filter. This makes it easier for us to be able to help.
Stay out of that pool store. They are making things much worse.
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