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'Muck-Vac anyone?

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Posted by vieja z7NM (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 15, 11 at 17:41

I have a very small pond that I have had to bail out the water every Spring bucket by bucket (oh, my aching back!!). Using a shop vac, the container fills up too fast with the pond water & I have go back to shut it off back at the unit, empty it & start over again. I needed something that would suck up the bottom sludge/water & dump it on to the lawn or into big tub (to dump on the flower beds later) but with an on-off switch located conveniently on the handle near where I'm holding it. Has anyone used the 'Muck-Vac' brand of pump that uses suction from a garden hose & pumps the sludge/water up onto the lawn? Easy to use without sucking up the fish!?

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RE: 'Muck-Vac anyone?

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One of our ponds is small and we had the same issue every year. first we bought a small submersible pump but the hose was so narrow it took all day to drain. Last year we bought an Oase 3 vacuum and you can place the discharge hose either in or out of the water. We used it last week and our pond was empty in like 10 minutes. Sucks up muck and other debris too. Only thing is that we use it as a vacuum for our other ponds and it wouldn't be cost effective to use just to empty a small pond.

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