I got my new pond hippo in the mail today:
It actually worked really good sucking duckweed and filamentous algae off of our trial pond. It will have many uses for many situations. We filled several large filter bags full of 100's of lbs of duckweed in a few hours of work this afternoon. If you can catch the wind right you can suck off lots of duckweed in a hurry. We didnt have any wind so we used our duckweed boom to bring it over to the hippo.
While we were impressed with the machine, it does have some limitations and does require manual labor to get the job done. Overall its a great product that will make many small pond owners or lakefront cove owners very happy. It easily sucks up algae, leaves, duckweed, and watermeal. Also sucks up large tadpoles, frogs, and a few other items that got a little to close to us during our experiments.
