20 Best Gravel For Drainage Behind Retaining Wall (2023 Updated)

Pulled it out of the box and the gravel looks more grey then white and when under the light it looks worse. Also has bunch of slivers and crushed pieces. Its probably the maker wont buy from again.

very good aquarium gravel, very good $.

I bought the white rocks when I decided to redecorate my fish tank. First of all my fish tank looks so nice, the white really brings the whole thing together. Seem like decent quality rocks. I sanitized them with boiling water before putting them in the tank.

No paint flaking. I did notice a lot of dust when I strained them after rinsing. (you should always rinse and strain new rocks bc the dust is very bad for your fish to breath in) That wouldn’t have bothered me so much if it was only dust.

However, a pretty big portion of the rocks are TINY. Like almost sand. I lost a good 1/4 of the rock when I strained them. (I used a cullender with very small holes). Waisted a good portion of my rocks.

and almost destroyed my sink (I noticed it wasn’t just dust coming out and managed to quickly block the drain. cant imagine what it would have done to my sink if I hadn’t caught it so fast) and made a huge mess for me to clean up- scooping handfuls of basically course sand out of my sink.

If I wanted sand for my tank I would have ordered it- I wanted rocks. Disappointing. But the quality of the remaining rocks and how nice my tank looks with them kept me from giving them 1 star.

I know that not every screen depicts colors the same way but this was entirely off by a lot. I purchased “Cumberland River” stones and here in the pictures, the pieces are slightly warm but neutral. In real life, the bag is labeled correctly but the stones are like “Nutty Pebbles”.

They looked SUPER yellow, horrible and everyone said they looked like corn! I spent a whole day manually sifting and picking out the stones from my aquarium. Then I was too embarrassed to ask Chewy for a return because I opened the bag already.

I rinsed it before putting into my tank and the water came out bright red. I thought maybe it was just the initial rinse so I washed it several more times with the same result. I put it in a bucket so I could move the gravel around to rinse it outside of the bag but the water was still coming out red.

After letting it sit for a few minutes I thought the color would settle, instead it stained the bucket. I would not trust using this with fish unless you want everything stained the color of the gravel.

30lbs doesn’t turn out to be that much product. This may be good for some uses but I found the 50lb bags of River pebbles I got from the local home improvement store to work better for me. The price was 1/5 the cost as this.

The only real difference was this product is “washed” the home improvement product WAS NOT washed. But, after the first rain it cleaned right up and looked like the washed.

I needed very small, black stones to match what I currently have. The Rainforest washed black gravel appeared to be just perfect by photo and description on the web page. However, the stones are larger than expected and, once the stones are taken out of their sealed plastic bag, they dry out and turn a very light grey.

Tractor Supply was very customer oriented and provided me with a full refund.

Definitely doesn’t look like the picture really dark gray there is no light color in it and very small pebbles and all round shaped. will not buy again wasn’t worth the money

Came out better than expected. Just keep in mind, use as little water as necessary as to much weakens the concrete and causes more shrinkage which will result in more cracking. Did need to make separate trip for additional product as it didn’t go as far as predicted.

Overall very satisfied with end results.

Best price around. Better than anybody else. Contained 31 very nice rocks. Just what I was searching for a new aquarium look. Only wish a business carried them in-store.

We bought an old equipment trailer that had Deestone tires on it that were over 15 years old. Kept one of the better original tires as a spare and then bought four new tires. They are an exact match to the old 2004 tire, will be very happy if they last 15 years like the last set.

Three stars because it is too early to tell. These are made in Thailand. They are 10 ply rating. They come with no markings that I could find saying all season or mud

Nice tire for the price. Matches my other ones

Great rocks. couldn’t believe the great price … only $1.50 a pound. Anybody else feel so lucky, let me know, i found some dirtt for only $1 a pound and manure fot only 50 cents.

These are beautiful! I rinsed them off and rubbed a little oil on them and they’re absolutely gorgeous. I’ve put a few in the flower bed and holding the rest until another project is finished. Very pleased! Very good sizes, too.

most are larger stoned, maybe half my palm.

My first time buying rocks at all, and I was pleasantly surprised! 2-3″ rocks are pretty large, and perfect as decor around my a/c unit. I ordered 6 bags which was enough to form a 6″ border around the unit.

Vibrant colors when wet. Highly recommend!.

These stones are beautiful! Perfect size for my cichlid tank. These are technically considered landscaping stones so rinse rinse rinse before putting them into your tank. Rule of thumb is to rinse in hot water until you have 2-3 water dumps of completely clear water then allow to cool before putting them in your tank.

I purchased 3 bags for my 125 gallon tank. I’m still on the fence about purchasing 1-2 more bags, but don’t think it’s completely necessary due to the amount of stacked stones we have in our tank. Each bag needed roughly 20 rinse sessions with SUPER hot water to get the oil, dirt, and other deposits off of the stones.

Stones should always be rinsed before putting into a fish tank, these did need more than a normal bag, but way worth the extra work for the price and quality of the stone. All in all, these are perfect with a great price to match.

I bought 2 bags rinsed them repeatedly before putting in my turtle tank. 3 days now I am doing daily water changes. The water is beyond cloudy and reeks like fish. My whole house smells horrible. My tank has never been like this ever! Before I just had straight glass bottom few rocks but never covering the while thing.

I had to change the water frequently because it would get murky and a little smelly. But now I cant stop the water from getting super cloudy and nasty. I have changed my filters every single day since putting the rocks in and they are just nasty every time.

I have been threw 8 filters and it shows no sign of getting better. Super upset. This is right after 3rd water change. Water was crystal clear going in. Fresh filters and getting cloudier by the min.

My turtle isn’t even back in the tank yet.

The reviewer that said the gravel is not actually black, but more of a muddy grey, is correct. That doesn’t bother me. The reviewers who said the gravel is coated with an oily/waxy substance are correct.

That wasn’t much of a problem for me. My problem is that these stones are so large that food falls down between them where the fish can’t get at it and no amount of gravel vacuuming ever really helps for long.

And this even though I run a reverse-flow undergravel filter. I thought larger/smooth stones would be a good thing for corys but I am now looking for gravel to redo the tank with. There’s probably some application that this gravel might be good for, but it’s a giant failure as an aquarium substrate.

These aren’t white. I had other white rocks I had purchased from Home Depot. These are grey next to them. Additionally, part of the package was dust rather than whole rocks. Would not buy again.

I bought this for my Glofish Betta to complement his color. I followed all the directions & rinsed the gravel well. 24 hours later, I wake up to find him dead and his water all cloudy, even though I did an 80:20 water change just yesterday and the filter works just fine.

I’ve had him for 8 months and have had no problems before using this gravel. I looked up other reviews of this gravel from different sites, and other people report their fish dying within 24 hours of adding this gravel.

I’m devastated and wish I had never added this to his tank. Please reconsider before buying this.

We picked this out for my daughter‘s tank because it’s bright white. I noticed it didn’t say the word ‘sand’ anywhere on the bag, or say what was in the bag , but we bought it anyway. I’ve had many fishtanks before and we were going to use this as the top layer in a dirt floor tank.

After washing it for 20 minutes my daughter thought it looked gross because it kept having dust come out of it creating dust bubbles. I then belatedly researched it before putting it in our tank, and realized it is gross! This is an unknown mineral byproduct, It is not sand.

The reason the bag doesn’t say sand on it is because sand actually has a definition. We switched to a bag of construction sand we happened to have in the basement, which washed clear in a few minutes and looks great.

The difference between real sand and this stuff is actually surprisingly big. If you read the other reviews of it, it’s shocking Petco actually sells the stuff. If we had a local aquarium store in our town I’d be going to it!.

The Imagitarium Nutmeg Aquarium Gravel that I bought was made up of not too small and not to large bits of gravel. it is close to the coarseness/fineness ratio that I am looking for. I would like a finer and more uniform gravel, such as used to be easily available when I kept aquariums many years ago, but I don’t see it for sale anywhere.

The warm closer is nice. I would prefer something more neutral. I read ads for gravel before purchasing. The gravel I purchased on line was coarser than I wanted but usable. I saw Imagitarium Nutmeg Aquarium Gravel in the Union Square Petco and it looked closer to what I wanted.

It is okay. I find it impossible to judge the coarseness of gravel from photos in on-line ads.

I was setting up a betta tank with this and it caused me so much stress. My water comes from a well and the ph is a constant of 7. 4. I was about to go to petco to buy a betta (DON’T fish in cycle unless you know what you’re doing or have a nice bottle of prime, beneficial bacteria and api master test kit) and tested the parameters one more time before leaving my house.

Over the course of two days my ph had gone up to 8. 4. My first suspicion was my root tabs. I had to turn my substrate over to find them and finally remove them. When that didn’t work I took out my “betta bulbs” which honestly deserve another review because those things rot and grow biofilm over them every single time I’ve used them.

Eventually I resorted to asking facebook and someone suggested seeing if anyone else had had an issue with the same substrate. After looking at them it’s pretty certain that this is what raised my ph (Only other decor i had in the tank were a small java fern and spider wood).

Don’t get this unless you know and are aware of what it will do to your ph.

Nothing grows well on this south side of my house. So I put down garden paper and the pebbles. I couldn’t be happier.

We bought the pebbles for a drainage channel. We needed something to stay in place and look natural. The sizing mix was golfball size to marble size and was a perfect color of blues and natural stone with a tumbled smooth surface.

I ordered 8 bags of Quikrete Pond Pebbles to fill and blend with existing Pond Pebbles. I would have bought more from my local store but it was no longer available. The Pond Pebbles by Quikrete in the same bag and same description.

The rock I received was multi-sized gravel! Ranging from pea gravel to fist size. Lacking shape and color. 28 May 2020.

The photo online for these River Pebbles shows multicolor, multi-size stones. Those are the pebbles I purchased in 2018. In 2020 and now in 2021, the stones, in the exact same packaging are all white and of uniform size.

At least change the online photi!.

We made a path next to the lake and wanted some rocks to look natural and not so out of their element and after looking around we found these pond pebbles. Not so much pebbles as they are rocks. Roughly golf ball or egg with a little smaller ones mixed in size to give you an idea.

Looks nice and easier to handle than a shovel and a pile!.

Have used this pond gravel before so knew what to expect. Wanted all plants to be gravel dressed the same.

Really like the decorative effect of this gravel. Looks good in the planters around the pond.

Perfect for small wildlife ponds like mine and around the edge and marginals plants

This gravel is nice looking but it’s very dusty and needs to be washed numerous times before adding it into the aquarium. I also found a few white rocks mixed within it, which is very noticeable with such a dark colored contrast.

Given its price point, the need for washing is somewhat expected, but I wasn’t expecting that amount of dust! Plus the white rocks really shouldn’t have been there.

Super

Good value