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Dave:

A clients forage pond (maybe 1/20th ac) had an Oak Tree fall into it when the leaves were green last summer. Water turned black and stunk. I pulled the tree out, and thought it was a goner. It had FHM and Papershells in it.

Threw a minnow trap in it and no fish or crayfish.

Water level dropped to about 14" this winter, and I turned off the aerator for the winter thinking all the fish were dead, so why bother.

A week before I was going to re-stock it with FHM, I looked at the pond, turning the bottom diffuser back on. At the same time I noticed FHM swimming around.

You're right. They WILL live in a nuclear waste dump! No signs of the Papershells tho.....