Thanks for the reply PoolDoc and to Watermom for all your help!

Today I finally tested my CYA for the first time as I've been putting it in for about 10 days now. I just have the HTH 6 way test kit right now and 30 is the lowest number on the tester. I can barely see the black dot at the bottom of the tester so I'm guessing my CYA is probably about 20 or 25. It is pretty blurry but it's still visible slightly.

My chlorine has been registering at 5ppm everyday and my Ph is at 7.8 as well. I guess I'll still add the dichlor doses until my CYA gets up to 40 or 50ppm correct?

My water is still and has always been nice and sparkling clean since I filled it up 2 weeks ago and I check the chlorine and Ph every morning. The chlorine definitely stays in the pool now since i have some CYA.

We had rain for almost a week straight last week so the pool never got any sun during that time. We had a full HOT day of sun yesterday and the chlorine is still holding it's reading well. We should have sunny days at least until Thursday this week.

I forgot to put my dichlor dose in on 2 different evenings over the past 10 days so that may be why my CYA isn't up more yet.

Thanks!
Jewlz