I'm on the plus side of a major algae bloom. As of yesterday, my water is crystal clear, I passed an OCLT between sunset last night and sunrise this morning, and my CC reading from my K-2006C is "0", so that said...I know my SLAM process is now complete.
However, I also noticed yesterday a bunch of spots on the bottom of my pool that resemble little piles of sand. I vacuumed them up (manually) and I literally had the whole pool floor looking crystal clean after an hour of vacuuming! Yet first thing this morning, probably 60% of all those "sand piles" were once again back on the pool floor. It hasn't been windy here at all in the past few days/nights. See attached pic. I took this same pic into the pool store (I know, I know!) just to see what they'd tell me, etc. They told me that all these little piles are not sand...but rather dead algae.
My question is ... will one of the Maytronics Dolphin robotic cleaners work on removing piles of dead algae (if that's what this really is?) The pool store said robotic cleaners won't work on dead algae. But I know manually vacuuming algae won't work either because I have a cartridge filter so the algae will just pass through it and be shot back out into the pool. "Vacuuming to waste" isn't exactly an easy thing with a cartridge filter. Here I was vacuuming yesterday because I thought those little piles were sand.
So...
1) Are all these piles sand or dead algae?
2) Will a robot cleaner pick this stuff up whatever it is?
3) If #2 is a "no", what do I do to get rid of these little piles peppered all over my pool floor?
Thanks!
Todd
However, I also noticed yesterday a bunch of spots on the bottom of my pool that resemble little piles of sand. I vacuumed them up (manually) and I literally had the whole pool floor looking crystal clean after an hour of vacuuming! Yet first thing this morning, probably 60% of all those "sand piles" were once again back on the pool floor. It hasn't been windy here at all in the past few days/nights. See attached pic. I took this same pic into the pool store (I know, I know!) just to see what they'd tell me, etc. They told me that all these little piles are not sand...but rather dead algae.
My question is ... will one of the Maytronics Dolphin robotic cleaners work on removing piles of dead algae (if that's what this really is?) The pool store said robotic cleaners won't work on dead algae. But I know manually vacuuming algae won't work either because I have a cartridge filter so the algae will just pass through it and be shot back out into the pool. "Vacuuming to waste" isn't exactly an easy thing with a cartridge filter. Here I was vacuuming yesterday because I thought those little piles were sand.
So...
1) Are all these piles sand or dead algae?
2) Will a robot cleaner pick this stuff up whatever it is?
3) If #2 is a "no", what do I do to get rid of these little piles peppered all over my pool floor?
Thanks!
Todd