Thanks Watermom - I took your advice and limited my add to your suggested amounts. I'll test again in the morning and see about the mix then.

I've been 'lurking' on the forum off and on all winter. As a newbie to all things pool related I just felt it best to sit quietly in the cheap seats and watch and learn rather than jumping in conversations only to prove my ignorance.

BTW, the main problem I had last year, aside from the algae wars, was a 'mostly clogged' water line. There was a dedicated vacuum line added sometime before we bought this place. The problem was they ran the line straight out of the pool for about 30 feet and then made a 90 deg. turn to run another 30 or so feet to the pool house. I wasn't able to get anything to clear out the jam in the 90 elbow so this spring I dug it up and replaced it with two 45's. Now the pump is humming along nicely and I've been able to bring our pool from frog haven to almost crystal clear in a little over a week! I should have things where they need to be for swimming tomorrow or the next day.

Thanks to you guys and gals for taking the time to help - all y'all go ahead and take a hug out of petty cash, each of you deserve it! ! !