help adjusting

[AnnaK]

You need to get some stabilizer in there right away. We recommend 30-50 ppm. Your chlorine is being consumed by sunlight and whatever organics are in the water needing to be killed.

If you have access to a Sams Club, buy their 24lb pack of 1# bags of 100% dichlor shock. Each bag will add about 7 ppm of chlorine, and about 6 ppm of stabilizer, per 10K gallons of water. Otherwise, order dichlor from Amazon:

Kem-Tek Dichlor 22 lbs

We do NOT recommend buying dichlor locally, otherwise, at least until you are an EXPERT reader of chemical labels. The chlorinating pool chemicals sold at Walmart, Kmart, Costco, and most other local stores are diluted blends, sometimes with copper and other products with bad side-effects.

If you can't get dichlor easily, add enough 6% bleach to keep the FC at 3 ppm. You didn't report any CC so I'm assuming you don't have an active algae bloom. Buy CYA at the pool store (100% CYA) and add it via the sock method.

You also need to raise your pH to somewhere between 7.2 and 7.8. Since your TA is in a good place you'll want to use 20 Mule Team Borax which raises just pH and has very little effect on TA.

Now that you have the fresh reagents for your K2006 please post a full set of results tomorrow.

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