I need to empty soft mud and rotted leaves from my 6 ft. pond. I just want to remove the icky stuff. Will this pump pull the mud from the bottom?
376484
Probably not. The experience I have is that the mud and leaves will clog the impeller and the pump will get hot and you may damage the pump. You need a trash pump.
1040773
My experience has been that it only picks up & holds small amounts of dirt. I have the same problem with it leaving dirt to resettle after running it. It works great for larger debris, but not so great for dirt which is what I was hoping for too.
423521
I think it should, as my pool is 18Ft. by 48" and it does a fine job. Do not expect this pump to vac large amounts of debris from the bottom, but.....it will do a nice job of keeping the pool clean. I bought this pump because one, it is super quiet, two, it costs less than the pool and three it is high quality construction. Granted, you can get a pump that will vac a swamp clean, but you will pay 400+ for that kind of power.Bottom line, if you are pulling a bull dozier, buy more power. But if you are in a two seat compact, buy the low power model.
195077
Yes it works great. I only tested it so far because it is my backup pump, but it really sucks the water well. I dumped a 5 gallon bucket of wster to test and it sucked it out in about 10 seconds
1085675
It cleans leaves and debris very well. However it mostly ignores dirt which clings to the bottom. My creepy crawly actually works much better but requires that the pump be turned on and the crawly be plugged into the skimmer. Another problem is the creepy is not compatible with the AquaBot since they will get tangled up if used together. The creepy crawly is a much better cleaner overall. I don't think I would buy the AquaBot if I had it to do over again since it doesn't clean the dirt off the bottom - just debris. It even picked up a large rock on the bottom one time.
497416
I use this on my 2000g pond with a sand gravel filter. No cleaning filters.. just use air. This would be overkill for 200g. Look at little giant pumps.
1368776
Sure. This may be obvious but you simply want to avoid sucking dirt, sand, leaves, or whatever junk may be in a creek, into the pump. If you can avoid that then it's no problem.If the creek has a strong current you may need to anchor or weight your pump.
771921
have used out doors, mesh will clog with floating debri. ie leaves and grass clipings. if for just dark sediment water it will work when flow is established. keep pump on flat surface so as no to draw up mud. place on a man made surface ie a board or cement block.
253802
not really, it will pickup debris ( hair, leaves etc. from the bottom) you usually will need a sand and dirt filter pump for that, or keep cleaning and refilling the pool when too much sand and dirt accumulates in the bottom.
875245
Our pump is at the bottom of a 38 inch Koi pond. It pumps 28 inches above the water line, with a moderate flow through our filter down a rock waterfall and back into our pond. It has been doing this for over a year, at least 10 hours a day. I will say, the flow has diminished this last week. We will pull the pump and check for debris. Meanwhile, to answer your question, we are over 5.5 feet. I feel 6 feet will reduce the flo, but will do the job.
1196022
No, It's designed for clear water like a swimming pool. What you are looking for is called a Trash Pump. You can use it in mildy dirty water but you need to put it in a bucket to strain the debris.
1013651
you need to have some type of skimmer or device that would allow the pump to maintain suction hard for any skimmer device at that depth pumps break suction then no pumping. the skimmer included does well an this pump does not have strong suction it does well to the advertised 1/8 inch. pumping up hill or pumping head is only a few feet another problem. depends on your circumstance. sounds like you need a wet vacuum. at 1/8 theres not much left to pump, all in all a good pump-for my uses.
1378792
No, its a great pump. I use it to clean aquariums. But, it does not have enough suction to clean from the bottom of a pool. Also, it is not self priming.
276295
I think it would pick it up. The only question would be if the silt was so fine it might actually go through the filter back into the fountain. If this happened, you don't have to drain the water back into the fountain.. just hold all the water / silt in the catch tube and then drain it on the ground. Hope this helps.
1913995
The flow rate through the pump and filter will be reduced a little. Consider the strain on the motor when the filter is dirty--the tiny bit of additional strain due to smaller diameter hoses will be nothing compared to that.
891926
I bought the pond vac to remove dead "sludge" from the bottom of my water garden ponds.It will certainly pick up sand. I must admit though,that the vacuum power requires constant "tickling" to maintain the vacuum power (the placement of the vacuum has to be ideally below the pond level being vacuumed.
2199763
It will suck up a bit of sludge, but I would recommend, for longevity purpose, to try and avoid that situation. The more water in the mixture, the better results. Cleaning the pump area afterwards is recommended. The pump comes with a netting, so leaves wont pass through. I wouldn't suck up leaves, the pump chamber would most likely seize.