hello all, i am a new pool owner. i have the filter pump that came with this pool, and i added the salt water system to it.
we put the pool up and ran the fliter pump, then added 5 bags of salt to the pool. let the filter pump run for 24 hours. then i turned on the salt water system. set that for 4 hours.

i tested this morning with the strips that came with the pool, all seems fine. the copper color is 0.1 (which the strip says is in the ok section). the free chlorine is 2 or 3, total alkalinity between the 120-150, both in the ok section, but the ph is a red, which doesn't even show up on the chart.

i have a couple of questions: how many bags of salt should i have put in? i did try to figure it out, but the math was beyond me. i am wondering if i should trow another bag or two in there.

and i am not sure about the filter pump's runnng time. i now have it set on the 4. so does that mean it will run every four hours, or it will run for four hours every so often? that every so often i have no idea what that would be.

one last thing (for now LOL) i can see perfectly down to the bottom of the pool, but it is not crystal clear, there seems to be a green tint to the water. i have well water. when we were filling it up, it was perfectly crystal clear. the water is not a green yucky, can't see the bottom look, but a green tint.

i hope i have given all the info needed for this. and thanks so much for any help in this.