Swell UKPond Vacuum Cleaner and Sludge Vac for Garden Fish Ponds. Include Three Nozzles

We have two ponds! Well, one Blagdon Half Moon Pool, and the other a small pre-formed "wild Life" pond. The pool is overstocked with fish but is beautifully clear, and the water quality mostly good. The pond has only eight gold fish but is muddy and very cloudy, caused by using the wrong type of pond soil when planting out pots of pond plants, but the water quality checks out as good. I had been thinking of clearing out the pond back to basics, at some risk to the fish, dreading having to do the same with the pool, since we would most certainly loose some fish.My wife stumbled across the Swell Compact Sludge Vac | Pond Vacuum Cleaner when she was trawling through Amazon the other day. Well, we've had stuff from Swell, which turns out to be Pontec manufacture, several times now, and it's all been good quality and reasonably effective. This pond vac is no exception! It is excellent! Problem solved at a couple of passes of the nozzle, so to speak. Everything you need, apart from a container for the dirty water/sludge is provided. We didn't want to take too much water out of either the pond or the pool, since we do a partial water change with the pool every week. The Compact sludge vac helped us by changing the water AND clearing sludge at the same time. The machine works in what at first seems a rather strange way in that it has a twenty second on/off cycle - THANK GOODNESS! It sucks for twenty seconds, and then pauses for twenty seconds, as it empties the container of sludge and dirty water, which gives us lesser beings time to fill one, not two, but three two gallon buckets with the outpouring sludge/dirty water. We found that two cycles in both the pond and the pool emptied out enough water for our weekly water change, and with the second pause we had time to switch the vac off. In our garden we do need two of us for this process, but since we work together anyway this was no problem (Boss had the job of taking the sludgy water up the garden to water her plants, whilst I looked after the vac and refilling the pond and pool - by gravity from our nearby water butt - a very good arrangement!!!).Just a brief update to help preserve marital harmony - well it works for me! We have replaced the emptying buckets with a large plastic dust bin for receiving the waist water - much less hassle! But there is more. Carrying buckets and water cans full of sludgy water up our garden (which is up hill anyway) has been replaced by an:Amazon Brand - Umi 400W Submersible Pump for Clean Dirty Water 8000 LPH, Drain Water from Garden Pond Pool Hot Tub Flooded Cellar, with Float Switch costing £50.00What a difference! We connected a half inch garden hose to the outlet of the pump, and this hose takes the dirty water right up to the top of our garden with just enough output not to flatten the plants, but to give them a lovely drink of fishy sludge water - they appear to love it! No more staggering up the garden with two gallon buckets of sludgy water - marvelous!!! Just a tip. If like me you don't use a non return valve on the hose you will find that you may have to prime the dirty water pump by laying it on it's side in the next full dustbin to let the air out - works OK after that!Well, what more can I say? If you have a similar problem with your pool/pond, and who hasn't, you could do a lot worse than looking at this Swell Compact Sludge Vac | Pond Vacuum Cleaner | Efficient Pond Cleaning | Three Nozzles. Well worth the eighty nine odd pound investment. Well done Pontec and Swell!

This pond vac is excellent used it today did a good job, the only thing with it is it could do with a longer discharge hose.Apart from that I found very good

Worked well as a hover for the work shop but not for cleaning out the pond. Read all the reviews and some one had cut the filter so the ring could go under the lid. This works well as the vacuum is maintained. The pond is extremely clean. Had to attach a 43 m adapter to fix a 2 inch hose to reach the drain. Works extremely well. I like the start stop system as it gives me time to stop cleaning and allow it to vent out as it’s quick and powerfulTried to ask chat bot for another filter so I can use it as a hover but it doesn’t seem to understand me

This is the first Powered pond vac I have ever encountered and if I had have known how good this one is I would have purchased it long ago.This a very simple to set up and use bit of kit - from delivery to actually using it was 10 minutes.There are enough extensions included for a good long reach for bigger pond owners.My particular pond is a Blagdon half moon type.With in 4 x 30 second sweeps of this it had grabbed to thick layer of sludge from the floor of my pond and around the filter -the attached pond “brush” also cleaned the liner sides effectively.I love how the vac operates - 30 seconds on - 30 seconds off to expel the collected water and sludge.I chose to have the extractor hose routed to the drain -quick effective way of doing a partial water change at same time.The difference this has made to my pond is significant.Another go in spring when I give my filter it’s annual MOT will leave me with a sparkling pond.I intend to keep up with my water treatments to keep algae at bay -after all -this is a pond vac that gets rid of sludge out of your pond - not a water treatment plant .Best part of this machine is that most of the hoses and tools can be stored inside the drum when not in use.Very pleased with my purchase and no negatives at all so far.

It's ok but I wouldn't really rate it as I thought it would be a lot better than what it was. The sucktion was just ok and just got some dirt out of our fish pond and it didn't really look much better when I finished to what it looked like before.

I have a pond around 10,000 litres and in the past have tried plenty of additives to clear it up with not really good results. I read that it may take several sessions to clear a pond in a poor condition and although the vacuum didn't appear to pull out a lot of debris after about 30 mins use and I expected that I would need a few more attempts to get it looking good. The day after though, I could see the bottom of the pond and the fish looking for their sun glasses! Absolutely delighted with the results. I can't report on how reliable the unit is after a years or so but so far so (very) good

Great product. Plenty of accessories. Works a dream and well made.So far have only used on our rockery pond but suspect it will become the car hoover as well.

Only just bought cleans pond well but dont expect miracles for only one use it will take a few goes mine had lot of alge would recommend