Oops!

Is your basket in the pump solid or does it have a hole?

If it is solid, the ball could be just inside the endpoint plumbing at the pump and stuck against the basket.

My basket has a hole on the water input size and a frog was sucked into my skimmer last week while i was cleaning the basket, it was bigger than a ping pong ball and was in the basket when I walked around, I let him out of course.

Get a shop vac and blow it out from the pump. It'll shoot up and out of the skimmer (basket out!).

Scott

That frog must have had the ride of his life.

Thank you, everyone!

Scott, that's exactly what my husband (also Scott) did.

He was still sleeping when this was all going down, while I posted here, while I had my 19th nervous breakdown over this pool project.

When he woke up, I told him what happened and he was cool as a cucumber.

The ping pong ball was ejected back into the skimmer - which made me ridiculously happy.

Thanks, everyone.

Just be glad it wasn't GI Joe with the Kung FU grip! Then you'd need a heavier duty, dedicated blower like I use for winterizing lines.

Scott