A few years ago I did that, and disturbed a dozen frogs that had no place to
go because the weather was already too cold. Now, I wait until Spring to
clear out the last muck. This is Michigan, by the way.

"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
...
For those of you who think leaving a few leaves on the bottom is no big
deal. Well today I was doing some vaccing of the last of the leaves to
blow
in when I upturned a bucket that had a few leaves and rain water, it had
been sitting like that since the leaves started falling (about a month).
Talk about PeaEwwww! Can't imagine my fish disturbing something like that
on the pond bottom and surviving it. ~ jan

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