Intex 12x30

[aylad]

What is your CYA level? That will determine how much chlorine you need to keep in the pool to keep it from going green...

Janet

[amshdoc]

Thank you for your help.

I bought a 3" chlorine tab (Trichloro-S-Triazinetrione) and a floating tablet dispenser yesterday and left on the pool overnight , i took some chem readings today at 11am.

ph: 7.2
chlorine: 1.5

My current test kit only measures Ph and chlorine.
What do you suggest?

[aylad]

You need to keep an eye on your pH and don't let it get below 7.0. Those trichlor tabs are acidic and will push it down quickly (as evidenced by a drop from 7.8 to 7.2 in one day!). You can use Borax to bring the pH up, just as you were planning to add the pH down. You need to know your stabilizer level. If you haven't added any stabilizer (aka CYA, balancer, conditioner, or dichlor powder) then I'll assume you have zero, and in that case as long as you keep the chlorine between 1-3 ppm, you should be fine. However, after you've been using the floater for a few weeks, your stabilizer level is going to rise (because of the trichlor pucks) and at that point you'll have to start keeping the chlorine a little higher.

In the meantime, go swimming

[PoolDoc]

If you follow the recipe, exactly, you don't have to test for CYA for awhile -- it will not come up that fast. If you start swapping things in and out, you'll need to get a test kit pronto. Basically, these are your only options. There are others, but they cost 2x as much. Only the HTH kit is available locally -- and only at some Walmarts. It's a small incomplete version of the K2006, but will work for now.

HTH 6-Way Test Kit @ Walmart
Taylor K2006A (3/4 oz bottles) @ Amazon
Taylor K2006C (2 oz bottles) @ Amazon

Also one caution: notice the seller at Amazon; Amato is preferred and cheapest. They are often out of stock at the end of the day, but restocked in the AM. VM Innovations has been OK, but do NOT buy from "Swimming Pool Warehouse".