I forgot about the Intex SWG. Some people do use those but if you do, you should disconnect the copper electrode. Contrary to what most people believe, it is not chlorine that stains things and turns light-colored hair green, it is copper!

The only places that we recommend to buy Dichlor are Amazon and Sam's Club. (The links are on the 'recipe' page.) Other brands are blended with unwanted stuff that you don't want in your pool. If you do use the recipe, you won't use dichlor permanently. Only until your CYA level builds up to around 50.

If you prefer to just use bleach and buy and add some CYA separately, that is certainly another option. For your pool, you would need about 1-1/2 lbs. or so. That would get you close to 50. Then, you could use bleach to maintain a chlorine reading between 3-6ppm. For reference, in a 4400 gallon pool, each cup of 8.25% bleach would add about 1.2ppm of chlorine. So, it wouldn't take all that much bleach to maintain your pool.

But, let me say again, you need to make sure that you do not allow the pool to get algae. Cleaning up a small Intex pool is tough!

Hope this helps.