Water Gardening: Shutting down soon, 1 by Carolyn22

Carolyn22 wrote:
Bonnie

I don't have one of those fancy expensive vacuums, but I have one of those leaf eater vacuums. We too put in trees to shade part of the pond. My pond sits right under a Kwanzen Cherry and a Mountain Ash. The Ash doesn't drop much, but the Cherry does. In the Spring, we clean up after the blossoms and in the fall after the leaves drop. The clean up is easy, with the leaf eater and the skimmer filter. We use the leaf eater twice a year - once in the Spring and once in the Fall.

The leaf eater picks up the leaves and whatever crud is on the bottom and does the trick for us. http://www.thefind.com/garden/info-pond-leaf-eater-vacuum. Have you checked ebay for a pond vac? I know MM does well on ebay.