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    Robot vacuum

    I notice a lot of swimming pools owners now employ robotic vacuums to clean the bottom and even vertical sides.
    fully automated but require manual emptying.
    The main concern would the small bag capacity but I still wonder if one could be successfully used in a Koi pond?
    I was watching one a few days ago in a swimming pool, it has a floating recharge station and able to dive and surface like a submarine!
    Generally speaking a swimming pool is kept very clean and in this case the owner only has to empty his hover when the red light comes on every 4-5 days.
    In a koi pond it might be every day but it might just work very well?



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    That is certainly an interesting idea, albeit depending on it's method of manoeuvre, as mine has a very think blanket weed blanket all round, I wonder how it would handle that <thinking>

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    Sorry but having seen various types of these automatic cleaners work over a period of 30+ years I can say that they are troublesome in a swimming pool where they only have to pick up a few leaves per day and have space to manoeuvre. I don't have one in my swimming pool and would even consider using one in the confines of a koi pond especially one in which there is any blanketweed even if you took all the fish out first to avoid them being sucked up which would be a distinct possibility.

 

 

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