If you need to calculate how much bleach or clorox you need to shock your pool you will have to use 1 2 gallon of bleach per 10 000 gallons of water to raise the chlorine levels by 5 ppm.
Clorox bleach in pool water.
Mix required amount of clorox regular bleach 2 with 2 gallons of water and scatter over surface of pool.
Mix uniformly with pool water.
Clorox regular bleach 2 will not harm plastic pools do not reenter pool until the chlorine residual is between 1 to 3 ppm.
Empty small pools daily.
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Your 1 cup clorox regular bleach with cloromax would have been enough to treat a 1 667 gallon pool.
If you are just trying to raise the chlorine level by 2 5 ppm then you will have to use as much as a gallon of bleach per 10 000 gallons of water.
So the yellowing was strong bleach reacting with everything in the pool.
For pool use we want no more than 1 2ppm.
A typical bottle of clorox bleach is 121 ounces of 8 3 percent sodium hypochlorite.
From experience my pool which is a 25 000 gallon in ground pool located near the woods lots of leaves and tree debris with a rather high bather load including lots of kids will use about 1 3 ppm of chlorine per day.