Do you mean a 2-SPEED pump? If so, put it on low.
I read through your chemical list:
You, my friend, have been "pool-stored". Badly.added metal free . . . adjust my alkalinity with sodium bicarbonate . . . 1/2# chlor bright (sodium diclolor s tra dih 99%) . . . . oxidized with 1 #pool breeze (potassium monopersulfate 44.7%) . . . 1# Fresh'N'Clear (potassium peroxymonosulfate 38%) ... added 1.5 lbs sodium carbonate.....4 oz Ultra Bright clarifier "blend of polymers" .... used the other half of the 1lb bag and put to 3" tabs in the skimmer...added 1.5 lbs sodium carbonate . . . add an algae control (poly[oxyenthylend(dimethylimino)ethylent(dimethyliminio )ethylene dichloride] ... add 2 lbs of sodium carbonate
Your pool is WORSE OFF, than it was before you started adding goop. (By the way, the poly. .. thing is just what we call polyquat. We occasionally recommend it.) I'm really surprised the tech at Natural Chemistry admitted that Metal Free does NOT remove the copper: it just *moves* it, from the stained areas to the water. If you didn't have stains . . . it did exactly NOTHING, except complicate things and waste money.
Cleaning up chemical hobo soup is never fun, because we're into various chemical interactions that are too complicated for even "Chem_Geek" to figure out. In other words, NOBODY knows what's happening in your pool.
Here's your best option:
1. Unless water is really expensive where every you are, drain your pool and refill. If you've got a soft-side pool like an Intex or a Summer Escapes, you could spend a month trying to clear your water, using their undersized filters.
2. Complete the pool equipment form, so I can have a better idea what you have to work with: http://pool9.net/pf-equip-form
3. Read the Super Simple recipe page: that's the easiest way to start up a 5k gal pool: http://pool9.net/ssr/
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