pond draining?

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Dec 8, 2009
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What do you guys do for draining your ponds? I have a water valve (like the ones used outside the house), I was thinking of using this to drain the water when needed. I would just hook it up to a hose then turn the nob. What do you guys use?
 
I use a mag-drive pump. I believe its 900 or 1200 size. had it for years now. have my siphon tube going into the pumps intake. The exaust of the pump has a hose going into a 45g rubbermaid trash can on wheels. Takes a couple min to get it started but it has great water flow. If i'm not paying attention i'll suck up a lot of gravel. (I only use this on my tanks / ponds that are over 200g that are on floor level and not on stands) I ordered a camera i'll try to take a pic eventually and get it on here.
 
This is what i've used for quite some time now. Just have to get the air out of the intake but its not that hard. Then the water is MOVING lol. (so much faster then my python is)

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