Hey Borrott, welcome and congrats on the new pool! Sounds like you had a good experience with the DIY pool build. Now comes the easy part, keeping the water clear

If you don't already have one, make sure you get a good drop based kit (don't use the strips). Ben's M.I.A. currently, so I'd suggest direct order from Taylor. I just ordered some refills for mine and they shipped in 2 days.

http://www.taylortechnologies.com/pr...its_search.asp

You'll find that with experience and this forum you'll quickly become more of an "expert" than most pool store water testers (Waterbear excluded) and will only need to go to the pool store on occasion for equipemnt/parts.

Be sure to save the Bleachcalc program to your PC desktop too, its a great tool.

Good luck!