As for chlorine its HTH granular chlorine. Not sure which kind it is. Any idea? lol after rereading your post it looks like it may be dichlor.
So I will try to get my alk up to 100 tomorrow. Then see where my ph i at that point.
Also I notice my hardnss is a bit low at 80 will; that rise on its own or should I try to bring it up with chemicals.
Edit:
Just checked my bottle and it has calcium hypochloride in it so that must be cal-hypo im using? I may have spelt the hypo word wrong just read it quick.
Well 1 more question to add. Is adding chlorine every 2 days to bring it back up, normal? I noticed after having 6 kids and 2 adults in the pool all day my FC dropped from 5 to .5-1.