Help with balancing pool

[PoolDoc]

You can add acid till your pH reaches 6.8 - 7.0. If you maintain the pool at that pH for a while, the alkalinity will gradually come done.

Repeat bleach doses till you get the chlorine level to DARK yellow on an OTO drops testkit. We need to know what your stabiliser level is, but you can 'guesstimate' it, once you get your chlorine up:

1. Add chlorine in the evening. If it's gone in the AM, you still have algae, or something using up the chlorine. Dose during the day, but double the PM dose. Once your chlorine level stays unchanged overnight, THEN

2. Dose in the AM and watch the results.

3. If your chlorine disappears as soon as the sun is fully out (afternoon on daylights saving time), you have little or no stabilizer.

4. If your chlorine hardly changes during the day with full sun, you have a LOT of stabilizer.

5. But, to do this right, you'll need the K2006 kit. See the test kit page, linked in my signature block, for links to the correct items on Amazon.

[Dohcvtec]

Since I added chlorine about an hour ago how soon can I add another cup ?

[PoolDoc]

On a small pool, you can test chlorine levels an hour or so after adding IF the pump has been running.

[Dohcvtec]

Ok I just ran another test and my ph is the same and my tc is barely reading so I went ahead an added another dose and I checked my cya but my tube only reads to 30 ppm and that wasn't enough to make the black dot on bottom disappear

[PoolDoc]

Double your dose size.

Sounds like you may have almost no CYA -- when you mixed the CYA test solution and the pool water, did the mix remain almost clear? (You have to let it sit for about a minute.)

[Dohcvtec]

Yea i mixed it go 30 seconds but it was clear ok I will add two cups in a few hours

[PoolDoc]

OK, that gives us enough info to go on.

1. Go with a 4 cup (1 quart) dose of bleach this evening.

2. Assuming that you have NO slime, and NO green, tomorrow AM, you can switch to the "Super Simple Recipe" for small pools. Even if you don't follow the recipe, this page will help you with many aspects of managing a small pool.