Water Gardening: Do you have or recommend a BOTTOM DRAIN in your pond?, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
This is the temporary setup to go around the bottom feed/U-turn water source. It was an immediate and amazing difference. Water is now flushing thru the filters and after one day of running this new setup, the filters were filthy. I cleaned them last night and will do so again tonight. What a difference real water movement makes! I guess it's all about turns.

I'm now also convinced that these pond 'specialists' (I've now dealt with two of them) are basically seat of the pants people who hope their setup will work. If not, it's the customer's problem to resolve. I was told that 50 pleckos would cure my algae problem. No word about making the installation work properly.