diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index ab9ff477e..4480ed2e3 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ julia = "1.3"
 [extras]
 FiniteDifferences = "26cc04aa-876d-5657-8c51-4c34ba976000"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
+StableRNGs = "860ef19b-820b-49d6-a774-d7a799459cd3"
 Statistics = "10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 Zygote = "e88e6eb3-aa80-5325-afca-941959d7151f"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["FiniteDifferences", "Random", "Statistics", "Test", "Zygote"]
+test = ["FiniteDifferences", "Random", "StableRNGs", "Statistics", "Test", "Zygote"]
diff --git a/test/zygote.jl b/test/zygote.jl
index cb485873e..faeb8fbba 100644
--- a/test/zygote.jl
+++ b/test/zygote.jl
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ using Random
 using LinearAlgebra
 using NNlib: conv, ∇conv_data, depthwiseconv, batched_mul
 using FiniteDifferences: grad, central_fdm
+using StableRNGs
+
+const rng = StableRNG(123)
 
 function gradcheck(f, xs...; rtol = 1e-5, atol = 1e-5, broken=false)
   grad_zygote = gradient(f, xs...)
@@ -61,8 +64,8 @@ gradtest(x -> logsoftmax(x).*(1:3), (3,5))
 gradtest(x -> logsoftmax(x, dims=2).*(1:3), (3,5))
 
 @testset "conv: spatial_rank=$spatial_rank" for spatial_rank in (1, 2, 3)
-  x = rand(repeat([5], spatial_rank)..., 3, 2)
-  w = rand(repeat([3], spatial_rank)..., 3, 3)
+  x = rand(rng, repeat([5], spatial_rank)..., 3, 2)
+  w = rand(rng, repeat([3], spatial_rank)..., 3, 3)
   cdims = DenseConvDims(x, w)
   gradtest((x, w) -> conv(x, w, cdims), x, w)
   gradtest((x, w) -> sum(conv(x, w, cdims)), x, w)  # https://github.com/FluxML/Flux.jl/issues/1055
@@ -88,23 +91,23 @@ gradtest(x -> logsoftmax(x, dims=2).*(1:3), (3,5))
 end
 
 @testset "pooling: spatial_rank=$spatial_rank" for spatial_rank in (1, 2)
-  x = rand(repeat([10], spatial_rank)..., 3, 2)
+  x = rand(rng, repeat([10], spatial_rank)..., 3, 2)
   pdims = PoolDims(x, 2)
-  gradtest(x -> maxpool(x, pdims), x; broken=spatial_rank == 2)
+  gradtest(x -> maxpool(x, pdims), x; broken=spatial_rank == 1)
   gradtest(x -> meanpool(x, pdims), x)
   gradtest(x -> sum(maxpool(x, pdims)), x)
   gradtest(x -> sum(meanpool(x, pdims)), x)
 
   #https://github.com/FluxML/NNlib.jl/issues/188
   k = ntuple(_ -> 2, spatial_rank)  # Kernel size of pool in ntuple format
-  gradtest(x -> maxpool(x, k), x; broken=spatial_rank == 2)
+  gradtest(x -> maxpool(x, k), x; broken=spatial_rank == 1)
   gradtest(x -> meanpool(x, k), x)
   gradtest(x -> sum(maxpool(x, k)), x)
   gradtest(x -> sum(meanpool(x, k)), x)
 end
 
 @testset "batched matrix multiplication" begin
-  rng, M, P, Q = MersenneTwister(123456), 13, 7, 11
+  M, P, Q = 13, 7, 11
   B = 3
   gradtest(batched_mul, randn(rng, M, P, B), randn(rng, P, Q, B))
 end