Just chlorinating is NOT working.

[justlane4]

I tested this morning and I am getting a dark orange color when i do. All of the bleach I have been using is Wal mart 6%. That was the past two days. No difference. I put 5 lbs of trichlor in last night. No difference. But the chlorine levels are high and i do only add in the evening. Waiting on a good kit to be delivered but the cheap test strips are saying that CYA is 0, but I know how inaccurate those are. So when you say keep levels at 15ppm does that mean AT or above or does it matter?

[PoolDoc]

I tested this morning and I am getting a dark orange color when i do.

If you truly have no CYA, and it was sunny today, your chlorine would have been all gone by the end of the day. If it was not, you almost certainly have very high CYA levels. If you can get an HTH 6-way from a local Walmart, do so. It has the Taylor CYA test. If not, check your chlorine in the AM. It it's unchanged, and you haven't added additional chlorine . . . then your stabilizer is VERY high.

I'm reluctant to tell you what to do, when I don't know what your levels are. Your pH reading may be accurate IF the CYA is high, but if the CYA=0, then the pH reading is bogus. Chlorine that high messes up phenol red, unless LOTS of stabilizer is present.

[justlane4]

Ok the test kit finally came. I added another 5lb of trichlor 48% last night (thats two nights in a row) and took a measurement this morning. All the while my pool is still green and cloudy, by cloudy I mean you can see about a foot down until everything disappears. My readings were:
FC 35
CC 0
pH 7.2
Alk 170
Hardness 180
CYA 60

Please help this is very frustrating.

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So if my CYA is 60 then i need to get my chlorine level to 75ppm???