MICROBE-LIFT MLXSAG4 Sludge-Away Pond and Outdoor Water Garden Sludge Remover, OK for Live Koi Fish, Plant Life, and Decor, 1 Gallon

These microbes keep my 1500 gallon pond clear! I just add a dose weekly

i have 3 koi ponds for the last 15 years , i have tried many products like this with little success until i purchased this onethis not only met my expectations it surpassed themafter dosing the pond within 3 days it was crystal clear i was amazed !!!!!! and in writing this review a month later , it is still crystal cleari won’t buy any other brand ever again AMAZING!!!

Worked well, but there are other products that are comparable that are 40% cheaper and perform just as well based on my experience

Huge bang for the buck! I have a 3k gal. Pond and have for 25 years. Ive struggled from time to time and some years getting crystal clear water. After 1 summer i must say...dont mess with the expensive beneficial bacteria any more. This bacteria is on steroids. Its essentially for larger ponds and sludge problems. If you have a small pond and not a good filtration system then you should definatly start using this. All the claims are true. I use 8 oz mixed with a bucket of pond water and throw it in every week or two. The bottom is super clean. * A clean pond means not much for the algie to feed on and grow! My ( 2) 45 gal sediment filter tanks with media also required only 3 cleanings over a 6 month season. (ITS USUALLY 5 OR 6) I also use an inexpensive 24" UV filter that i run for a few month from spring to mid summer...And that just really makes the pond shine. The fish also seem to like when i throw it in weirdly enough.Believe me-- I wish i had tried this product decades ago.

I have tried many different types of sludge remover, muck buster, debris eliminator, or whatever you want to call it. Every spring, I look into my 6000 gallon pond and see about a 1/8" thick layer of greenish-brown muck coating the rocks and gravel. I've tried scrubbing, power washing, other beneficial bacteria products all with little to no real success. The last product I tried was quite expensive but didn't work at all and I left a poor review of it only to have the seller respond to my review and insinuate that I was using the product wrong or didn't have sufficient dissolved oxygen in my pond. I can't tell you whether I have enough dissolved oxygen in my pond because I am not willing to spend a hundred dollars for a decent dissolved oxygen tester. However, I do have a nice waterfall and a 780 gpm submersed pump with a venturi valve attached to it, which brings a lot of oxygen into the pond (as an aside, the fish love to swim through this pumps output...maybe the bubbles tickle their noses).What I can tell you is that I purchased two one gallon bottles of this Eco Labs Liquid Sludge Away and began dosing the pond with it according to package instructions. By the time I finished the first gallon, the sludge on the bottom of my pond and coating most of my rocks had virtually disappeared. I can actually see some of the color variations on my pond rocks and gravel now; everything is no longer a uniform greenish-brown color.I've been dosing regularly for over a month now and couldn't be happier with the results. This stuff works and works well. I've noted not one single issue with my plants or fish. In fact, the pond is so healthy that there must have been frog shenanigans going on at some point because I now have thousands of tadpoles in the pond. In a few weeks, it'll look like Moses had visited a rain of frogs on my yard when all these tadpoles grow up and leave the pond.Bottom line: This is the product that I will use from now on to control sludge in my pond. I just wish I'd tried it a few years ago.

It did do a good job of getting the Sludge dissolved but then my pond turned a bright radioactive green with this weird algae bloom. Never seen anything like it. Took some water out to examine it and the already suspended in it is so thick it's almost like 100 gallons of green paint was dumped in. Plus the smell is truly horrible. Now my pond is not quite so bright as the green is getting browner. But fish are starting to die. Do I need an algaecide now? Tried to trap some of the fish to get them out and they all died in the traps. So maybe the bloom took the oxygen??? It's a big pond and netting is not getting enough fish out. I have no idea how to fix this. It's a stinky disaster.

Not kidding, it appears and smells just like the black septic sludge. Didn't see any change after 1 use and didn't want to poor thar black crap with my koi. Good news is they didn't die.