Go ahead and test your fill water as you are filling your pool. Use a drops based kit and post your results here for somebody to take a look at and we can go from there. Go ahead and have several jugs of plain, unscented bleach on hand and a box of 20 Mule Team Borax (laundry aisle at Walmart) and some baking soda. Some people start out by using trichlor pucks as their chorine source at first which have cya (stabilizer) in them. Then, when their cya level gets to about 30-50, they quit using them and just switch to bleach. That certainly is an option. I don't do that, though. I always just buy some cya and add an initial dose and then just use bleach. To me that is easier, but it is just a matter of preference. (If that option is your choice, go ahead and buy some cya. It may be labeled as stabilizer or conditioner, but if the ingredient list says cyanuric acid or isocyanuric acid, it is the right stuff. You can probably find it at Walmart or Lowe's, but you may have to get it at a pool store.)
Post your results and what you what to do chlorine-wise and then we'll go from there.
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