We put up a vinyl pool about two weeks ago. We just got around to getting chemicals. The pool is slightly cloudy and a bit slimey with algae forming. (I know--were very bad to wait.)]

I was going to start on addressing the problem tonight but now a storm is coming, so I have time to learn a bit more.

We figure there is about 4500 gallons of water.

Do I use shock or chlorine? And is the start up dose the same as the clean up dose?

Thanks,
peachfuzz