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Message: [QUOTE="Lisak1, post: 444185, member: 6145"] I think one secret to a gravel bottom pond is VERY LITTLE GRAVEL. Just enough to cover the liner in a shallow layer. I've seen people dump tons of gravel in their ponds - that's going to be bad. When I get in my pond, I can swish the gravel with my feet and uncover the liner easily. Swish it one way, swish it back. And there's never more than a small bit of debris that gets stirred up. Just a very fine sediment really. Another secret is a pond with a good current. If your water has good movement it's harder for things to settle in the bottom. Everything gets swept out by the moving water before it sinks. Our fish move gravel CONSTANTLY. When I get in the pond I always have to stick my foot into the cave and pull the gravel back out of both ends. Same on the shelves. Constant rearranging goes on in there! [/QUOTE]