Pool wont register chlorine.

[Watermom]

The only way to rid the pool of ammonia is lots of chlorine. It takes time, but it will eventually break it down. You may be not showing a chlorine reading because you may be bleaching out the test strips. Until your Taylor kit arrives, go to Walmart and see if they have the HTH 6-Way kit or at the very least, pick up a cheap OTO/Phenol Red kit (yellow and red drops). Those two kits are not too expensive and will hold you until the good kit arrives. They will not read chlorine levels past 5, however, so you'll need to use a dilution method to force them to go higher. With dilution, you do lose accuracy, but it is better than nothing.

Testing Without a Good Kit

[NJpool22]

I have the 3 way kit from walmart, the 6 way was out of stock. I will hit it with the 10 gals, and borax
. I dont know what a dilution method is. Wish me luck.

[Watermom]

The dilution method is explained in the link in my previous post called "testing without a good kit."

[NJpool22]

Thanks for the advise, my pool is regstering a chlrine reading, around 3. Im still waiting for my taylor kit to arrive. My ph is a little high though (7.8). Alkilinity is fine. And CYA is holding at apprx 50.

[Watermom]

Keep your chlorine between 3-6 with that CYA of 50. Your pH is ok at 7.8 but you don't want it any higher.