Hi all, I'm a new pool owner as of about six or seven weeks ago. We're enjoying having a pool very much (I live in South Florida).

Background: I tend to be obsessive about things.

Question: I like our new pool, of course, which as a beautiful Diamond Brite Super Blue finish. After waiting a little more than a month, we got a Barracude G3 to vacuum the pool. When I recently cleaned out the pump filter basket, I saw a few pieces of Diamond Brite in there -- I hadn't seen that before in the first 30 days of pool ownership. I wondered where it came from?

This morning, I think I figured it out. There a few places -- maybe a dozen or so -- in our pool which have tiny pits in them, where I supposed the Diamond Brite that was there got sucked up (maybe just broken off without suction). The pits aren't real deep, certainly not to the point where it exposes the pool shell -- it's about the depth of one of the pieces of blue aggregate crystal used in the plaster.

My question is, is this normal or abnormal? If it's normal, I won't sweat it. If it's abnormal, I'll bring it to the pool builder's attention.

Second question is a follow-up: what do you do with these pits? Just ignore them (they're small enough to do that)? Or do you use some sort of pool repair kit for these kinds of things?

Thanks