We're about to get the pond vac—and boy! is it needed!

It's the annual algae soup festival—we're having to wash the filter twice a day, and the koi don't tend to eat that kind of algae.

First thing I have to do is change out the UV light bulb in the anti-algae UV filter. That could be expired, and these specialized lights don't burn out before they cease to be effective.

Then when I get my hands on that pond vac, which is a powered one—the last struggled to remove a teaspoon of algae, and that went back to the store—I'm going to have a mammoth...