Water Gardening: pond vacs, 0 by snapple45

snapple45 wrote:
I made the mistake of using my husband's Dewalt shop vac to vacuum the sludge off the bottom of a small top splash pool in a two pool goldfish pond. I ruined the shop vac. Luckily my DH had agreed when I said I wanted to use it and what for. No matter how many times we cleaned it, let it dry out thoroughy and replaced the filter, it just has lot nearly all suction. This pool is 12" deep and about 24" across. Using the big pond vac II for such a small job seemed overkill. Instead I killed a shop vac!