Well......strips are pretty much ok for telling you if there"is" or "is not" chlorine in the pool--but are not reliable enough to tell you "how much", especially if you're trying to correct a problem. If they have the cheapie OTO kit (red and yellow drops for pH and chlorine), it wouldn't be the best thing, but would be better than the strips. They only test for chlorine up to 3 or 5 ppm, depending on which one you get, but you can dilute your pool water with distilled water and force the kit to test higher until your 2006 kit gets there.

By the way, you don't have a bromine pool, so there's no bromine in there unless you've added it......

To continue clearing up the green, if you really have 0 CYA, you need to have your chlorine up between 12-15 ppm, and hold it there, until the green starts to die off and become cloudy/blue.

Janet