So lost!

[ratgirl]

We have a 16ft round above ground. 5000gallons I believe? Vinyl liner, and I'm pretty sure the filter is sand. We took a sample of the water in tonight to a pool store and they told us to use 1lb of shock chlorine, and to use 9!lbs of alkilinity plus. We did that, and a whoooole lot of leaves came up from the bottom, which plugged up the skimmer basket, and kinda broke it? The sides are torn from the top in places. Anyway tomorrow I intend to turn the pump on, and let it filter, get all the leaves up from the bottom as they come up, and I'll skim them out until I don't see anymore. Then hopefully it'll be okay to run non-stop. Right now we have it turned off so it doesn't...blow up or something.