Hi, DC,
I absolutely think your water is saveable--there's not really that much wrong with it!! Do you have a working pressure gauge on your filter, and is the pressure rising any as the filter runs? Do you see any claring of the water throughout the day?
Your CYA is zero, if the water isn't cloudy at all--and will remain zero until you actually add some to the water. You'll need to do this to keep the sun from burning all your chlorine up. In the meantime, you need to test and add chlorine a couple of times daily, just to make sure you keep a residual in the pool so the algae can't get started. The trichlor tabs will help, but check first and make sure they don't contain copper (read the ingredient list well!) If they add copper to the pool, don't use them. There are trichlor tabs out there that don't use copper, and they are okay to use. Your alk is high, and if your well water is high in calcium content, that may be precipitating the calcium out of the water. When you cleaned the filter, did you rinse a bunch of white water out of it?
I'll let Ben advise you on removing the calcium, but if you can drop the TA, using muriatic acid, that may well help. Until your registration is upgraded, you won't be able to follow a link, but if you'll log out of the forum, go to the main forum page, under the section that deals with alkalinity and calcium, the first sticky in that forum talks about removing calcium. The next one under that deals with lowering TA, which you'll use the muriatic acid for.
I would return the pH minus (you have muriatic acid for that), the algae guard, the clarifier, and the metal control back to the store and get your money back. Use that money to order a really good kit, like the k-2006 linked in my sig--that's going to make your poolkeeping MUCH easier!
Your water's not in bad shape--it just needs a little tweaking, and that's what we're here for!
Welcome to the forum!
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