Here I am working... and browsing PB between looooong processing tasks again. Sometimes engineering can be so droll.
My pond is on average 12 feet deep(?) when full, with the deepest at 16 feet. A pretty good crater. However I have lost a little more than a foot to leakage so far even though it has been a wet year. Last year it was almost 3 feet due to the leakage plus drought, so it was easier to stir up the bottom. For the most part I only stir up mud when snorkeling near the bottom and even then it settles fairly quickly.
My pond is still young, so the bottom still has no muck. Plus I get sunlight to the bottom which gets O2 down there allowing the whole water column to be utilized. If I could condition my fish to be used to humans, it would be a great aquarium. Otherwise when I am snorkeling I only see tailfins briefly.
