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We couldn't get the product to work very well...would have taken waaaay to much water to get our pond clean using this product...we won't even use it.

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purchased to clean pond. It would not vacuum bottom. Returned [...]

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the muck vac is a huge improvement over the much smaller muck vac i had because it more easily and efficiently cleans the pond. it works really well, but does require a little bit of strength and coordination to handle the cleaning tube and discharge hose at the same time. it does require alot of water pressure, and sure drinks alot of water in the process, meaning that you have to fill up the pond after cleaning.

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Often when I order something from a catalog I am disappointed, but your Muck Vac was easy to put together and worked like a charm with the insturctions you included. The only thing that would make it better would be to have a longer discharge hose. It is of such quality that I think it will last a long time.

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I wished we had this last year.

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I mentioned above; however, it saved me much time and enerty since I did not need to drain the pond and remove fish and plants.

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It just did not work. Upon reading instructions it says it only works with household water presure above 50lbs. Most homes have a max of 50 lbs presure so my guess is that it won't work for most people...

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expected better!
even with high water pressure any particle larger than algae or sand quickley clogs the brush and tubes.
works well on smooth and flat areas but needs repeated passes on any bumps or wrinkles.
disappointed that even decayed leaf bits presented a problem.
found a lower priced model that dose the job plus other debris.
not happy with the preformance considering the price paid.

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Although we had high hopes this would work where everthing else had faild we found it not big enough tto handle our swimming pool. As a pond cleaner I would recommend it , but it need a little longer handle and hose.

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We collect the used water that flushes out for watering shrubs and flowers. No wasted water.

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While the Muck Vac does a good job on debris at the bottom of the pond, it leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to algae.

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Instructions that came in the box was for another product. There must have been a part missing as there is no way to connect the vaccum hose to the vacuum. I plan to return it.

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This is a great product to clean mid-size to small ponds. It worked great to clean the deposits that foul the water. Take note: this item requires high water pressure to work effectively. We had to change to the largest water hose available in order to get enough pressure. It will not work if your home outdoor water pressure isn't at the suggested rate! One slight con: the discharge hose is a little short. In order to pump the discharge well away from the ponds, we had to add on additional hose -- not too difficult, but it's worth mentioning.
This product sure works great for us where we volunteer at our botanical gardens and at home. It's definitely much easier than putting on the boots and wading in!

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Product works well, simple/clean design. Having a longer discharge hose would help.

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I really couldn't be happier with the performance. If you need it to remove muck from your pond, it certainly works as advertised. I would steer away from trying to suck up leaves due to the size of the tube creating the vacuum. Also, make sure that you have good water pressure. Several of the other reviews claimed that the suction was not all that good, but I have not found this to be true and relate it to the water pressure. The down side is the length of the discharge hose. That is the only thing standing in the way of this product getting five stars.

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Works better if hose discharge is at or below the level of vacuum head. I wish the discharge hose was longer. I'm going to buy a piece of hose to extend the discharge.

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If you don't have the required 50 psi you have to "prime" it, which means getting the exhaust end of the hose lower than the level of the pond; in my case difficult to do since the ponds are lower than the ground level. The muck rake was only of partial usefulness.

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It did do the job but I had to have my husband use it because I couldn't get it to do anything. He took the brush off the end and was able to suction up a lot of muck but it took a while because you have to keep stopping and clean it. It cloggs a lot.

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For years I had to capture my fish and stow them while I emptied my pond to clean it . . . a messy and smelly job. Muck vac saves me all of that. It hardly arrived when I unpacked and used it with great success!

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I'm happy to have a vacuum hose to clean my pond. Handling the hose & vacuum is a little tricky but I made it work. It needs some type of clip that can be used to keep the garden hose & vacuum hose together.

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It does take out a lot of pond water with the muck, so to avoid messing with the balance too much I'm not doing the whole pond at once. I stop when the water gets down a few inches and wait a week before using it again. I found it very awkward to use because the pole is also the outflow. I saw it for half what I paid somewhere else. :(

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exit hose is not long enough. Muck Vac did not handle the removal of normal pond waste or build up from my pond.

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The product would be great if it performs as advertised. I tried to clen my smal pond, but could not get it to work. I am returnuing it for a full refund.I hink my expectations were too high on this product.

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Used the Muc-Vac to clean my Koi ponds. Vacuum is fair to good, be patient it takes awhile. I thought the hose should be longer to drain farther away. Finally,I tended to lose the vacuum often and had to keep repositioning the head. Over-all not a bad tool though.

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Got my pond cleaned up in no time at all. I just love it, wish I had gotten one years ago.

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I bought this for my outdoor fish pond, approx. 8ft in diameter. There are fallen leaves in pond and they immediately plug up the rather small intake hose. I would not recommend this to anyone who has leaf debris in with the muck

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I just bought a house with an existing Koi pond, that was horribly filthy, and I was worried sick about how I was ever going to get it all cleaned out. I saw the Muck Vac in the catalog, and thought I would try it as it had what I needed in a vacuum, and a brush. This worked better than I ever expected, and very fast as well. I was able to clean the entire pond with this one tool, and it looks wonderful now.

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Our pond is really dirty, so it's taking some time to get it all cleaned up. This product is a definite step in the right direction. Once it's cleaned out completely, it'll be a breeze to keep clean. A good product that I would recommend to others.

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The exhaust hose fittings don't fit and the hose falls off the tube. I found this product to be totally useless after trying to use it for the intended purpose. It was a total waste of money.

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The mud vac is a very weak tool for outdoor ponds that would have fish and falling leaves/debris. It might work if the pond was extremely clean but then we wouldn't need it.

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This product is easy to use and works quite well. However, when the telescoping handle is extended, it is not sturdy and is difficult to maneuver. Also, the brush tends to become dislodged. Because it works on a vaccuum principle, it can only be used in a situation when the head is lower than than the outlet hose, therefore it can only be used in the deep areas and not on the rock areas leading to the pond.

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The suction is good, cleans fish pond easily. Not to fussy about dragging or trying to hold the water hose which can get heavy, but overall, I think it does the job. I am satisfied with it.

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Difficult to use.

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thoroughly cleans pond & waterfall, but difficult to connect hose; when extended collapses too easily. needs improved connections overall.

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If you are cleaning an ornamental pond, I'm sure the Muck Vac would do a good job. If you are cleaning a fish pond however, I'd say the Muck Vac takes out much too much water in the cleaning process to be valuable---you work hard to get a good balance of ph and other chemicals in the water for healthy fish. This cleaning system gets rid of so much water it seems you'd be almost starting over when the pond bottom got somewhat clean.

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Everything is great about...it really sucks up the muck...you have to get it primed but it's not a problem once you read the instructions...*smiles*

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I use this to clean out my small pond; it really fills the bill!

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Works well but needs a larger intake pipe to accommodate gravel and larger debris. My pond is large (20' by 40')and it is taking a while to get it done. Otherwise, I love it!

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Got rid of a sand problem in our above ground pool. It worked wonders. Thanks

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THIS IS A GREAT PRODUCT...NO MOVING PARTS...EASY TO USE....ONE PROVISO...YOU NEED GOOD WATER PRESSURE FROM YOUR GARDEN HOSE TO HAVE IT WORK.

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Product works OK, however had some difficulty geting suction back when "vacuum" broke cleaning the nozzle. Also uses a lot of water. My pond is about 2500 gallons with 27 fish. I think this would be a good product for a much smaller pond.

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I knew a product like this had to exist. Thanks for the great description and pics and reviews. It is what I wanted and works so well for my garden pond. I wish I hadn't tried other methods before buying this. I love being able to collect the muck water to water my perrenial garden. I can see to use this vac without stirring up the muc in the process of removing it! YEA!

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We were waiting for a local fish place to get some pond cleaners in, but then I saw the product in your magazine. I had seen it before, but was waiting for the local store to get them. We got this, and within a couple of hours, our 1500 gallon pond looked great. I would definetely recommend this product. Wish we would of bought this product months ago.

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I use the Muck vac to clean a 29 X 30 foot fish pond. It was very easy & did a really good job. Didn't have to stop to empty a catch bag. Made the job of cleaning the pond a lot easier.

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Easiest way to clean my ornamental pond I have found.I have used sump pump, skimmer pump, canistor vacumm, toilet brush- you name I have tried it! This was so much easier.

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The exhaust hose could be longer

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easy to use and get to fertilizer the plants at the same time. does not pick up large leaves. i really like it

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Works well with sufficient pressure.

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IT WORKS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE!

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While not difficult to assemble, there are both major and minor malfunctions to consider.

The minor malfunction is that the discharge hose does not discharge dirty water (i.e. water the Muck Vac vacked) if the Vack's head is below the discharge hose's end. If that is the case, clear, clean water from the supply hose is being discharged and the Muck Vac is not vacuuming at all.
This may be an unavoidable problem with siphons generally, but makes working with in-ground ponds virtually impossible as the discharge end is always above the vacuum head.

The major malfunction is that Muck Vac doesn't deliver on its vacuuming promise. Ultimately I had to remove all potted flags and lillies from my ponds and clean them by hand while trying to get the Muck Vack to vack the silt layer over the pea gravel bed in my rubber-lined ponds. Relatively little gravel was sucked, no fish that I saw, and the oxegynating plants in the pond gravel just had to be re-planted. But the Muck Vac also removed very, very little silt; in fact, it did little more than stir up the muck and cloud the water for 24-36 hours.

I have, regretfully, returned the product to Gardeners Supply. I am now looking into purchasing a herd of hungry snails. They like muck, eat it, probably make their own, and continue eating it.

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Bought to use to clean my small backyard pond of the usual leaves, scum, insects, etch. Vacuum cleaning is based on venturi principle of the garden hose waterflow (consult your high school physics book about the venturi principle. Weak at sucking leaves from bottom and can't pull up any sand or dirt.

At a hundred dollars roughly, it just ain't worth the prince.

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This product doesn't work, plain and simple. Don't waste your money

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I was skeptical after reading some negative reviews, but after using it I was surprised how well it worked. My pond had 7 years of scum built up because I have never emptied it. After about a half an hour all of the muck was removed and surprisingly I only lost about an inch and a half from my pond level (550 gal.). I was able to get suction right from the start but I lost it once, which required lowering the wand to ground level a few times to restore it. For muck it works great, maybe not so if you are trying to remove leaves etc..

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My pond is crystal clear thanks to muck vac

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Loved the idea for our pond--but did not have enuff water pressure to make it work. Also discharge hose could have been longer or an adapter put on it to spread the water further.

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Usually during the first warm days of spring we have to clean the pond by draining, collecting the fish, and scrubbing, then refill and release fish. With this piece of equipment it was done almost before we knew it. My husband and are were both extremely pleased with both the ease and use of the scrubber.

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The muck vac is easy to use but it just stirs things up and never cleaned my small 50 gal pond. I tried 7-8 times, but it's just a wannabe pool cleaner. The barley ball took one day to clean what the muck vac could not.

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Really like the way it clean out my fish pond, it was the first time that I use it, really did a great job. I was supprise how easly it was to put together. THanks a lot.

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We have a lined pond and it did not work well with it... It might have been because our pond is more deep then wide and we just couldn't get a good angle...lost suction.

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This product addresses a messy, undesirable task. It keeps me dry and out of the muck.

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This product does not work well in a lined pool. Unless your water hose has considerable pressure the vacuum will not work properly. It would probably work well for a swimming pool or a small plastic shell pond.

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I have a well and keep my water preasure at 56 psi, the vacum would not hold. need to fix it so you can connect to preasure washer

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I was able to clean the muck from the pond without disturbing plants or fish.

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I tried to use this product to clean the bottom of my water feature and my hot tub. All it does is stir the muck into the water and create a huge puddle of discharge water that you have to deal with. I have had much better luck with my shop vac. For [$] the Muck Vac is no bargain.

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As you vacuum, almost all the water gets pumped out of the pond. Poorly designed. Difficult to operate. Vacuum barely picks up sand, leaves, algae or any debris.

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I used the muck vac to clean out my pond. The first time it worked really great. However, since the first time it loses its prime if wand is lifted waisthigh. Now, I can still use it to empty the pond or get in the pond bent over to clean the pond but that really gets hard on the back. Do you have any suggestions on how I can keep the pump primed?

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You will need to watch out for little fish, maybe drain water into a large bucket or barrell. I use it to clean out our water pond..it works very well. It can be a little awakward.

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I bought this for my garden pond. It was simple to use and my pond has never looked better. It worked so well that I tried it in my above ground pool. It worked so much better than my pool vac.

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The muck vac is very unwieldy. I might work well for a large pond but not for a smallish area like the bottom of a fountain or a small pond basin. It's hard to manuever. Also, the suction was not very strong even though we have plenty of water pressure. I have a simple siphon tube that worked better. I was disapointed. I didn't get my money's worth from this product.

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We use the muck vac to clean out bottom algae and to drain our garden pond. It didn't suck out the algae very well at all and draining took forever. Never did completely remove all the water.

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love it to death don't have to bend over any more
great for ponds!!!!!

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It's a tight fit to get the hose attached and won't work at all if the end of the hose is not original. It did get all the muck out of the pond, amazingly.

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Product works great. A little practice to get the siphon going. A longer exhaust hose could mae it easier to use.

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Useless. I have normal water pressure and it is insufficient to make this "vacuum" do anything. What a waste of money.

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Once you get the Muck Vac primed, don't let it go. It's very tedious to keep it going. Does a fair job sucking the bottom debris out. We used it in a small garden pond.

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This product does not work well when in a standing position. You almost have to make it level with the water in order to create the suction it needs to operate.

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I use this item to clean my goldfish pond. It's easy to hook up to my water hose and easy to use. The muck goes in my flowerbed for fertalizer. Saves my back from having to drain the pool and move fish and plants. I love it.

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I guess we don't have enough water pressure to make this vacuum work. I was very disappointed as it looked like a winner.