Can rocks and gravel make it difficult to clean your pond?

The conventional pond mentality presumes that the conventional accumulation of muck on the pond’s bottom will become all the worse with rocks and gravel … and they could not be more wrong.

The ecosystem pond mentality concentrates instead on maintaining a natural balance in the water garden, which in turn allows Nature to do most of the maintenance work on its own, for almost no extra cost.

Bacteria colonization occurs readily on the rocks and gravel because of the increase in surface area and helps the muck/debris to biodegrade/breakdown
Natural biodegradation turns muck and debris into nutrition that plants (including algae) can use to grow strong and healthy.

The aquatic circle of life occurs when the fish eat the plants, produce waste that falls to the bottom of the pond and, along with the debris biodegrades into nutrition that is used up by the plants which are eaten by the fish, etc., etc., etc.

As long as the pond is in balance and the infinite aquatic circle of life is in process, the pond owner will experience very few maintenance problems.

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