After I scrubbed out the pool with some bleach and leftover pool water, I refilled it and it filled yellow/green, not cloudy at all and there is NO slime. Is this algae? does it have to be cloudy to be algae? or just green? I followed the 7 day bleach plan for the Intex start up pools adding bleach and borax.

The ph was 6.2 and chlorine 3-5 (all I have right now are the strips) then I added 4 doses of borax, ran the filter all night.

Today I scrubbed the pool and vaccumed. The water is still yellow/green and completely clear, NO slime.

The ph is 6.5 and chlor reads 10+ on my strips. I added 4 doses borax ran the filter for 10 minutes then added 4 doses of bleach. filter is still running...what do I do next? Is this algae. The water was clear when I did the well water test before I refilled the pool.

I am ordering the right testing kit, but don't I need to take care of this before I get the strips? Won't a week be too long to let this sit? Thank you for your time and great site, my husband keeps wanting to dump a bottle of store bought algaecide in the pool, but I keep telling him that the answers are here and to be patient!