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- Keep Your Pond Crystal Clear with the Good Ideas Tornado Pondvac
- Removes dirt and debris in minutes and Attaches to garden hose
- Telescopic lightweight aluminium handle gives reach of up to 4 feet.
- FREE POND NET.
- Manufactured for Good Ideas
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Keep Your Pond Crystal Clear with the Good Ideas Tornado PondvacTM
Removes dirt and debris in minutes
Attaches to garden hose
Harmless to fish and pond life
Telescopic lightweight aluminium handle gives reach of up to 4 feet.
*UK Patent no. 04096087
This clever British invention attaches to your garden hose and the water pressure creates a venturi effect, which sucks up any dirt and debris. This collects in a re-useable muslin bag, allowing the clean water to pass through. The pond debris makes useful garden fertiliser. The special brush attachment has special rollers which glide easily over the pond bottom, gently removing the dirt whilst protecting pond life and fish.
The Tornado PondvacTM comes complete with a lightweight telescopic aluminium handle to easily reach into the largest ponds. 3 year guarantee.
Free Pond Net with every New Pondvac Purchased.
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MANUFACTURED FOR GOOD IDEAS
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
For a long time we have had problems with the muck on the bottom of the pond. It ends up smelling and green - even though we have a filter and waterfall.
Then I saw this pond pump - it arrived on time and it is extremely well made - I must stress this, it's not in the least bit "cheap or plasticy". I used it for an hour and the pond has been gin-clear ever since. What a remarkable bit of kit. I just wish I'd seen it years ago.
Then I saw this pond pump - it arrived on time and it is extremely well made - I must stress this, it's not in the least bit "cheap or plasticy". I used it for an hour and the pond has been gin-clear ever since. What a remarkable bit of kit. I just wish I'd seen it years ago.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
I had read some bad reviews on this product after ordering, so was going to cancel but it had already been despatched.
Used it for half hour and was surprised how good it was. Yes, its not going to replace a proper pond vac, but at a fraction of the price it does and fair attempt.
To get the best you need to have good water pressure, so it worked well for me. Previous review I have read have complained it did nothing, but I suspect their water pressure was too low. I could see the vacuum vortex and detritus moving towards and into the device. Only downside is that you pumping in tap water, so you don't want to use it for too long.
Used it for half hour and was surprised how good it was. Yes, its not going to replace a proper pond vac, but at a fraction of the price it does and fair attempt.
To get the best you need to have good water pressure, so it worked well for me. Previous review I have read have complained it did nothing, but I suspect their water pressure was too low. I could see the vacuum vortex and detritus moving towards and into the device. Only downside is that you pumping in tap water, so you don't want to use it for too long.
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
This product is ok, in my opinion, for a pond where you are generally already on top of the problem lurking at the bottom of the pond. If you are trying to rectify a considerable period of neglect and you have a lot of silt at the bottom, then you may be best getting one of the pond vacuum pumps. For getting up larger items of debris, such as leaves, this doesn't do too bad - the venturi effect sucks the leaves up into the bag and traps them. It will pick up silt, but it can't trap it, so it just recirculates the silt and before long you can't see a thing. I guess this isn't too bad if you have some seriously good filtration for your pond, that can be back-washed to clean the filters once you have got all the silt up into suspension and your pump has presented it to the filtration system.
For the price it's excellent and well worth tryng first to see if it tackles the problem. If it doesn't, then you haven't wasted your money. You would then just have to invest in a vacuum pump and use the cheaper venturi device when you get some leaf build-up. Better though to avoid allowing the surface debris to sink to the bottom in the first place - get an OASE Swim-Skim, which works surprisingly well.
So far as getting your water clean for ever more - dream on! Cloudy/green water is due to billions of algae cells whose numbers explode once the water temperature and light levels start to increase. True, it's more likely to occur if the algae can feed off lots of nutrients due to decomposition of gunk at the bottom of the pond, but even so, you're unlikley to get on top of the problem with this device and filtration/UV alone. It's all about balance and this device can certainly help, but this won't be the thing that gets your water crystal clear. Get some flocculants and maybe algicide/blanket weed killer also.
In summary, when the pond level gets a little bit low due to inevitable evaporation, etc., rather than just putting the hose in, I'll put this device on the end of the hose and run it along the bottom periodically. That way, I'll probably keep on top of the problem now that I've given the pond a good clean with the OASE Pondovac I bought shortly after purchasing this venturi device.
For the price it's excellent and well worth tryng first to see if it tackles the problem. If it doesn't, then you haven't wasted your money. You would then just have to invest in a vacuum pump and use the cheaper venturi device when you get some leaf build-up. Better though to avoid allowing the surface debris to sink to the bottom in the first place - get an OASE Swim-Skim, which works surprisingly well.
So far as getting your water clean for ever more - dream on! Cloudy/green water is due to billions of algae cells whose numbers explode once the water temperature and light levels start to increase. True, it's more likely to occur if the algae can feed off lots of nutrients due to decomposition of gunk at the bottom of the pond, but even so, you're unlikley to get on top of the problem with this device and filtration/UV alone. It's all about balance and this device can certainly help, but this won't be the thing that gets your water crystal clear. Get some flocculants and maybe algicide/blanket weed killer also.
In summary, when the pond level gets a little bit low due to inevitable evaporation, etc., rather than just putting the hose in, I'll put this device on the end of the hose and run it along the bottom periodically. That way, I'll probably keep on top of the problem now that I've given the pond a good clean with the OASE Pondovac I bought shortly after purchasing this venturi device.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Disappointing - it didn't work
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Published 11 months ago by Caesar
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Published 12 months ago by RussTheLegend
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Published 12 months ago by daveyl
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I have only used this once and it seemes to do what it is intended for.
It crossed my mind that if used during the warmer months it might be counterproductive using the... Read more
It crossed my mind that if used during the warmer months it might be counterproductive using the... Read more
Published 13 months ago by CT
Not bad not great
Easy to assemble but takes a lot of patience to use, have not had that much success with mine to be honest, does not seem to suck up that much.
Published 13 months ago by Steve
No good for shallow ponds
Having a shallow pond I found this product almost impossible to use and had to resort to an over flowing pond to get an sort of use from it. Read more
Published 20 months ago by jww.
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Have just got round to using my Pond Vac and think it's a good buy as I have excellent water pressure. Read more
Published 21 months ago by madcat
Not worth bothering with
I bought this product after trawling through several sites looking for a solution to my dirty pond. While it does work a little it's main problems are that it needs to be... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Justin
non-fitment
the head falls off the rest of the vacuum, it does not fit together, not even a push fit.
diffilt to use on your own.
diffilt to use on your own.
Published 22 months ago by C. Mccormack
pond vacum
I found the vacum good once you get the idea of what it can do, my problems initially were that I did not have enough water pressure, so it would not pick up from the bottom and... Read more
Published 22 months ago by P.H.
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