Hi
I am new to the forum, although I had been reading alot of existing posts. I could not find much on this topic though. I had 100's of dead worms float up when I shocked the pool on opening. I got them out and thought I was headed in the right direction, water turned a blueish gray although still very cloudy. Figured there are more onthe bottom I would get when it cleared up and I vacumned. (18x36 pool ~28,000 gallons). Used 4lb. bags of shock from intheswim, algacide, clarifier. Then it started to turn green again (still cloudy) so added 3 more bags of shock. Got greener and using a dipstick that showed no FC but right amount of total chlorine. Added 8 gallons of liquid chlorine and still showing no FC and getting greener and still cloudy. Few more worms and debris floating up. Added 15 gallons of bleach (equal to about 8 more gallons liquid chlorine from what I read) still no change. Took advise of this site and got a real test kit but only had oto chloring test - showed yellow that I have chlorine - but it seems like this measures total chlorine which I already knew I had. Added 3 shock bags and the granulars itself turned a milky white and then started bubbling up and created a white film over the pool. It sucked into the filter and disappeared. Pool still green and cloudy. Read to keep shocking 3x a day - did 2 more times and each time same bubbly reaction with white film ( few more worms and debris to surface). That is ALOT of chlorine in that pool..... do I continue....