Help!!!! New to this Pool thing.

[Watermom]

Yes. Shock the pool up to 15 as Carl suggested in his post above. Test 2 or 3 times a day and each time add enough bleach to get back up to a cl level of 15. When you can go overnight without losing more than 1 ppm of cl, then you can let it drift back down. Also run the pump 24/7 while you are trying to clear the pool.

As Carl mentioned above, your TA is high. The way to lower it is to use aeration which you can read about in the following thread. Your pH was dangerously low and thus the need for the Borax. Now, you'll want to continue raising your pH through aeration. When it gets up to around 7.8, you'll add muriatic acid. This will lower not only your pH, but also your alk. Then you'll use aeration again to raise the pH back up to 7.8 and repeat this cycle as often as you have to until the alk comes down to around 80-120.

More info in the following thread.

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=191

[CarlD]

Backing up a little:

The Borax isn't to help clear your pool. It's to get the pH back into the safe range or it could soften and weaken your liner. You had to take care of THAT first.

Now we can move on to clearing the water and 'Mom's instructions.