switching to sand from gravel

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hey guys this is something that i've been thinking about doing now, and might be doing soon-taking out the tiles on my pond floor and replacing with a little sand...the thing that scares me about sand is do you guys do any maintainance at all with it as you would gravel-syphoning it and whatnot? i have some rays in the tank right now...so these guys be the sandshifters as mentioned before to keep the sand constantly stirred...
my other question is that I have the pump on the pond floor, and I'm affraid that sand might get kicked up in it, and then in my sump...I guess I would have to elevate it by either putting some river stones under it to build it up perhaps...
what do you guys think?
and my appologies to OP, not trying to derail-just seems like a great spot to ask this question!
thanks in advance guys!
 
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