Rats! Just when I thought everything was great, I've hit a snag. Crystal clear water after the initial open, then we had a chilly spell here where we didn't use the pool for 3 days (covered for all 3). I added a jug of 6% bleach each day which was my routine from last year, but when I pulled back the cover tonight...cloudy water! Here's my numbers:

FC 0
CC 0
ph 7.2
alk 160
cya 70
cal 220
times my 3 year old told me "dad...that water's DIRTY" 62.5

Obviously, there's no chlorine in the water and I noticed that my ph (which was stable at around 7.6) had fallen to 7.2. After thinking about it and poking around in other posts, I have a GUESS as to what I did wrong:
After first opening the pool I raised the water to shock level (20 ppm) and waited for it to clear up (which it did in about 4 days). However, I probably didn't keep it at shock level long enough. Does that make sense? That's about all I can come up with. The water is cloudy but not green.



Here's my plan:
I added a bunch of bleach and took the cl back up to 20 ppm.
I'll keep it at that level for 2 or 3 days or until there's no drop off overnight. I didn't add any Borax yet...it was stable so I'd hate to screw with it too much. I figure I'll tackle the chlorine problem first then see what the ph looks like afterwards. Will the ph come up after you shock the water?