"hendo" wrote in message
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Sorry if this is a beat to death question!

We have a small pond in the backyard - about 12' x 5' - it was here when
we
bought the house 8 years ago. There is now much sludge on the bottom, most
likely due to my poor pond-keeping habits!

So my question is do any of the pond vacuums really work? I'm not
interested
in trying to build one myself from a Shop-Vac or similar - just want an
easy
way to get rid of several years worth of dead leaves, fish waste, etc.
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Don't get the kind you have to pump by hand as they're worthless. They run
around $50. Everything jams the flap and most of the sludge ends up
suspended in the water, not in the vac's exit hose. I threw my $50 away.
Now we simply drain the whole pond, suck the mud off the bottom with a
shop-vac, hose, re-vac and fill. Nice clean clear water.... )
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McKoi.... the frugal ponder...
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