Recent content by Vanti

Well, Chip wasn't doing anything no matter what we tried while spinning in circles. He's been sent back after waiting for an appropirate sized Amazon box to show up, was received today, and I'm anxiously waiting for him to come back and clean my pool! I used to think skimming was calming. Maybe...

Chip, our Betta2, started spinning in circles this week. I've read this whoooole thread 😅 and it seems like a possible temporary fix is to remove the props, spray the heck out the inside, and WD-40 things up? Anything else I'm missing? In retrospect, I feel like I noticed that he was running a...

I mean, I don't *need* both. We were fine with the Polaris and brushing, vacuuming, and skimming manually before. It was just annoying -- but most of the annoyingness to me was the skimming. A robot army is pretty nice, though, and once fall arrives I'll love Dale's expensive self even more than...

Thanks for sharing MyAZPool's thread, @Katodude - it confirmed we're not total dummies! We started trying the thing where we pull Dale to the side of the pool each morning, leave him in the water but loop his cord on the deck and let him pull it in when he runs in the evening a few days ago and...

I just saw a post on Facebook on a pool page where someone put pool noodles over their cord to keep it from tangling. I wonder if that might work -- the pool noodles would be a bigger object for the skimmer to want to avoid, and float the cord so the skimmer couldn't go over it as easily. Does...

Chip (Betta skimmer) and Dale (Dolphin Explorer E30), our rescue robots, are fantastic individually but together they just can't quite get along. Is there a way for both of them to be in the pool at the same time so Chip doesn't get hung up on Dale's power cord? My initial thought was to devise...

Thank you so much! I totally forgot about Marina.

We snagged the above robot a few weeks ago and it's been fantastic. That said, I think we'd like to buy the ultrafine filters because we're struggling with some pollen. When I look on the Maytronics website their filters section only has a link to Amazon. And when I go to Amazon, I don't see the...

Thanks much for your help, y'all! :)

So, the pool light has a switch in our house that we use to turn the light on and off. And we thought we'd either put one of the lounge chairs over the junction box or a side table over it so nobody bangs into it. This isn't like touch it and get zapped kind of voltage, more like don't open it...

Hey y'all! We've decided to take our diving board out -- it's in prime lounge chair real estate, it's cracked, and we don't use it. It's no longer to code but grandfathered in so we can't (legally) install a new one down the road, but we're OK with that. I feel like I read somewhere that...

Hi! I'm researching cleaning robots for our pool and I think one of the above is the way I want to go. From what I've read these are all the same with the exception of the color scheme. Is that right? Am I missing any other models of the same robot? I've done the research about what features I...

Thank you for that link! I'd seen The Physics of thread way back when but I'd forgotten about it. I'll have husband look at itso he can reassure me eleventy billion times that it'll be ok. :LOL:

Hi y'all! This past summer we bought a house with a pool in Portland, OR and are first time pool owners. It doesn't have a cover, and according to the pool service the previous owners didn't close the pool in winter. Apparently in years past it was easy to manage by running the pump for a few...