OK sorry for the delay, I thought I'd get an email when someone replied.

Yes, my husband dumped in TEN bags of powder when we first opened forgetting that it was only like TWO we were supposed to use. We are definitely only doing bleach from here.

OK as for the Chlorine reading, I think I totally misread the instructions. Sorry, need to dust off my Taylor kit skills from my first year last year. I did the 10mL sample and counted 40 drops.

The pH level didn't even register on the Taylor kit it was so low. I have an eXact digital reader (someone gave me) and it registered it as 6.4.

Carl, what is DE powder?