I hear ya stma, we got people all around us enjoying there pools, here in georgia it's going to be in 90s next week, water is already 82. So bummed that we aren't swimming. I also just found out at Walmart I have actually only put 7 lbs of the shock xtra blue with copper in it. The other 5 lbs was didn't contain copper, and we on county water so never had a metal issue. Please let me know how the floc does, I'm ready to try that or a sequesterant lol