Swell UK Pond Vacuum Cleaner and Sludge Vac for Garden Fish Ponds. Includes 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 £50.00 What 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!

Incredible tool, sucks sediment and even gravel from the garden pond.

Very easy to use go to volume for money

I had a pond that badly needed cleaning, this pond vac made the job 100% easier. The automatic start stop on this vac makes all the difference. Would highly recommend this pond vac.

Best thing ever. My only suggestion would be for their to be a scraper and sucker hose head together, that way I could scrape the sides of the plastic pond more easier than the bristle head hose (learn from me, don't place a pond in direct sunlight, aim for part sun and part shade, or your pond like mine, will be green within a week from algae. However, it's a game changer; and whilst I'm not able to use this in my plastic lined pond to clear debri from the bottom and sides, I can use it to help drain the water twice a year when carrying out general cleaning. Oh yes sucker hose is a bit too long for us, shame there isn't a way you can shorten or lengthen the sucker hose. Drain hose is fine.

Not a bad little hoover. Lightweight just a lot of pipes to store

I didnt want to spend over £100 just for a pond vacuum. This works as expected, i bought a 'sock' style nylon filter for the outlet end separately. The suction is very powerful (used on a raised circular 2.5ft deep pond). Remove any plants you dont want damaged first. I have the outlet hose placed into a spare large dustbin and the vacuum raised up on a bench next to the pond so 1. i have no issue getting the suction hose into the pond and 2. the outlet hose is same level or higher than the dustbin so no issues it running into that, however i still have my partner assist as once its full of water it is some weight. I use the slim nozzle so i dont accidentally get the fish. The filter wont stop the very fine algae that clouds the water, hence filling the dustbin with around 100 ltrs. leaving over night to settle, then using the vacuum to suck that up and empty back into the pond. The water is looking better, and i have done this three times over a few days. Remember to clean off the inner sponge/foam filter that seems to like collecting the blanket weed on! Dont run it straight back into the pond thinking it will filter out debris, it wont unless you have a filter basket or as i did buy a 'sock' for the end. Tights didnt work and i used several types hoping the fine algae would be removed. All in all very happy.

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 powerful Tried to ask chat bot for another filter so I can use it as a hover but it doesn’t seem to understand me

l'aspiration et le refoulement est automatique, pas besoin de savoir si le contenu est plein, l’aspiration s’arrête et ll se vide automatiquement.

Utilisé une fois. Patience car s'arrête toutes les 20 secondes puis redémarre. par contre le descriptif devrait spécifié que la prise est anglaise ou US. Personnellement j'ai couper le fil pour mettre une prise française

Bonjour la prise de l'appareil n'est pas conforme au norme française il fallait que je change de prise. Beglet

Il fonctionne comme expliqué dans la description. Il aspire puis quand le contenant est plein, il recrache. ça se fait tout seul, il faut juste prendre le coup. ça nous a permis de bien nettoyer notre bassin.

Conforme a la description.