So I'm awake early to wake the kid to see the blue red moon, red blue moon, super red blue moon. Anyway. I normally let the dogs out of the garage when I wake up. But being 4am, earlier than normal, I let them lay.
Now about 6:30 I go to let them out and hear slurping sound and see water running through garage. Open tank stand to see return pump sucking air. Unplug it and glance at ATO reservoir, still has water. By this time water is drained from display and about done. So I stare ate it for a second, plug it back in and it looks normal. But was still low. Where the heck is this water coming from?
Look at skimmer and it's almost all water very little air. It's coming from my skimmer overflow container. Quickly unplug it and it stops. So from about 6:30 am till about a half hour ago been nothing but circulation pumps running. Busy morning with kid, phone calls, lawns and just relaxing. Took out skimmer and venturi was clogged. Cause? Salt creep. Weird thing right at the pump connection. Not at the top where you'd think it would be sucking in air/salt mixture.
Any moral to this episode? Not really. My overflow container for skimmer holds a gallon. I lost about 3 gallons I figure based on what I added. Didn't pay much attention. Had I seen this at 4am may have been preventable? Was it happening before then? After and I wouldn't have noticed even if I did let the dogs out? Don't know.
Obvious question. When was the last time I cleaned skimmer? Couple months ago when I changed out sump. Before that? Longer. Maybe I loosened it last time and it made it's way down to where it was and grew from there. ??
Glad it was in the garage. Keep on keeping on.
Now about 6:30 I go to let them out and hear slurping sound and see water running through garage. Open tank stand to see return pump sucking air. Unplug it and glance at ATO reservoir, still has water. By this time water is drained from display and about done. So I stare ate it for a second, plug it back in and it looks normal. But was still low. Where the heck is this water coming from?
Look at skimmer and it's almost all water very little air. It's coming from my skimmer overflow container. Quickly unplug it and it stops. So from about 6:30 am till about a half hour ago been nothing but circulation pumps running. Busy morning with kid, phone calls, lawns and just relaxing. Took out skimmer and venturi was clogged. Cause? Salt creep. Weird thing right at the pump connection. Not at the top where you'd think it would be sucking in air/salt mixture.
Any moral to this episode? Not really. My overflow container for skimmer holds a gallon. I lost about 3 gallons I figure based on what I added. Didn't pay much attention. Had I seen this at 4am may have been preventable? Was it happening before then? After and I wouldn't have noticed even if I did let the dogs out? Don't know.
Obvious question. When was the last time I cleaned skimmer? Couple months ago when I changed out sump. Before that? Longer. Maybe I loosened it last time and it made it's way down to where it was and grew from there. ??
Glad it was in the garage. Keep on keeping on.