Thanks. I was waiting to here back on this before I opened it and put any in my pool! I figured as much. The crooks want all the $ they can get out of us. I know now why you have such rigorous firewalls on this forum. To keep the pool chem sales people OUT!

You may have seen my previous posts but I'll repeat. I had a big algae problem. Which I stopped. Then, I had a cloudy pool. I did use algaecide. I won't do that again, though it DID kill it. All I'm using is trichlor right now. I stopped using the cal-hypo shock. The pool cleared up and all the dead stuff went to the bottom. One thing I've figured out is with this pump I've got, you have to move REAL slow with the vacuum. Otherwise, you just stir it back up again. Also, I realize this takes lots of patience!

The TA is at 290. Hardness is off the chart. But the pH is stable at 7.2 and TC is around 4.

I don't know WHY you guys do this, but thank you!

I will get the dichlor eventually.