Your problem may not be the water, but a lack of oxygen.

I prop the hose up and with a fine spray, spary over the surface of the
water for about 20 mins, every so often.

That makes a trenedous difference in conditions like you describe.

Good luck,

Keith

"Broadback" wrote in message
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At the bottom of my rather large garden is a large natural pond. As with
much of the country we have not had rain here for some time. My water
butts are depleting rapidly so I am carting buckets of water up the garden
from the pond. Like most natural ponds it is rather mucky, I wondered if
there is a good pump that will deal with the muck, not requiring constant
clearing of the filter. Any suggestions please? as an alternative a yoke
for 2 buckets would be useful, but I cannot find a source, so any help
there would also be appreciated.

At the bottom of my rather large garden is a large natural pond. As with
much of the country we have not had rain here for some time. My water
butts are depleting rapidly so I am carting buckets of water up the
garden from the pond. Like most natural ponds it is rather mucky, I
wondered if there is a good pump that will deal with the muck, not
requiring constant clearing of the filter. Any suggestions please? as
an alternative a yoke for 2 buckets would be useful, but I cannot find a
source, so any help there would also be appreciated.

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"Broadback" wrote in message
...
At the bottom of my rather large garden is a large natural pond. As with
much of the country we have not had rain here for some time. My water
butts are depleting rapidly so I am carting buckets of water up the garden
from the pond. Like most natural ponds it is rather mucky, I wondered if
there is a good pump that will deal with the muck, not requiring constant
clearing of the filter. Any suggestions please? as an alternative a yoke
for 2 buckets would be useful, but I cannot find a source, so any help
there would also be appreciated.

http://www.diytools.co.uk/diy/Main/P...roductID=27352

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Broadback wrote:
At the bottom of my rather large garden is a large natural pond. As
with much of the country we have not had rain here for some time. My
water butts are depleting rapidly so I am carting buckets of water up
the garden from the pond. Like most natural ponds it is rather mucky,
I wondered if there is a good pump that will deal with the muck, not
requiring constant clearing of the filter. Any suggestions please? as
an alternative a yoke for 2 buckets would be useful, but I cannot
find a source, so any help there would also be appreciated.

I bought one of these two weeks ago........
http://www.tooled-up.com/ManChanSear...SearchButt.y=0

It'll handle small solids, but if you strap a mesh pond planting basket over
the intake, that should do the job,
HTH
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London, UK

Last year our pump rather successfully trapped most of the tadpoles!

So this year we will leave it turned off to give them a swimming chance.

And yes, the water is a beautiful shade of Very Green. We are "watering" it
with rainwater via a watering can, with rose, in the vain hope of getting
some air in.

As for the yoke idea sounds like you will have to make your own.

Sue

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"Broadback" wrote in message
...
At the bottom of my rather large garden is a large natural pond. As with
much of the country we have not had rain here for some time. My water
butts are depleting rapidly so I am carting buckets of water up the garden
from the pond. Like most natural ponds it is rather mucky, I wondered if
there is a good pump that will deal with the muck, not requiring constant
clearing of the filter. Any suggestions please? as an alternative a yoke
for 2 buckets would be useful, but I cannot find a source, so any help
there would also be appreciated.

"Broadback" wrote in message
...
At the bottom of my rather large garden is a large natural pond. As with
much of the country we have not had rain here for some time. My water
butts are depleting rapidly so I am carting buckets of water up the
garden from the pond. Like most natural ponds it is rather mucky, I
wondered if there is a good pump that will deal with the muck, not
requiring constant clearing of the filter. Any suggestions please? as
an alternative a yoke for 2 buckets would be useful, but I cannot find a
source, so any help there would also be appreciated.

Use a floating pickup filter. Picks water from the surface not the muddy
depths.