Hi, Summer,

Complete waterbear's test. Like both of you, I don't think that's the problem but it's a good safety net.

Since I sorta' left you dangling on your clear water quest, I'm gonna' chime back in and offer some more steps.

How often do you add the four gallons? Only to bring your Cl up to 20 ppm. Now, (and you have arrived at this point) add enough Cl as often as you can to bring your ppm right back up to 20.

Let's say you put in the 4 gallons tonight and tomorrow morning your FC test at 4ppm (or even zero again). Use Michaels calculator to add enough clorox to bring it right back up to 20ppm...If you tested 4ppm, you'll need 3.2 more gallons to bring it back to 20ppm. Let;s say you come home for lunch and your FC test 10ppm....use the calculator again and you'll find you need 2 gallons to get it back to 20ppm.

Do you get the routine? Test as often as you can and calculate enough Clorox to bring your pool right back to 20ppm.

Here's what will happen....your test will show more and more FC as your pool clears. DON'T STOP!! Keep adding Clorox right back up to 20ppm until: You can hold 20ppm overnight. Once that occurs you will have gotten all the junk from your pool and you can let your Cl return down to about 6ppm.

That's it, Summer, your pool will sparkle and you can go swimming. Disregard the advice I gave you about adding Cl only at night......you have enough CYA in there to hold Cl during the day.

Now let me offer you three rules:

1. Bring your Cl up to 20ppm, test as often as you can, and add enought Cl to bring it back to 20ppm

2. Bring your Cl up to 20ppm, test as often as you can, and add enought Cl to bring it back to 20ppm

2. Bring your Cl up to 20ppm, test as often as you can, and add enought Cl to bring it back to 20ppm

Sorry to be a horse's patoot but It's important to emphasize what you should be doing now. I'll bet you'll be squared away in just a few days if you follow the three rules above!

Dave S.