OK.. but its getting hard to be patient. I have been looking at blueish white water for 9 days.. been shocking for 13 days. If it weren't for the wife.. I would be hiring a bulldozer to take care of this. LOL

by the way.. I also put a cup or so of DE in the sand filter last night.. it didn't spit out the return.. (i am thinking that's encouraging.. maybe my filter is ok).. but it also didn't clear the water overnight. I added a little more this morning.. then it was too much. so i backwashed and flushed all the DE out. Had to go to work and didn't have time to add any more DE.