Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Yep, you're right - I went and checked it out on the way home from work yesterday. The lakes have a mixture of duckweed and a small-leafed variety of azolla in about a 1:1 ratio.

It's a quiet little are with parking bays. I grabbed a couple of kilos in about 5 minutes and put it in an isolated tank last night. It didn't make the slightest dent in the amount there.

Have put a little bit in with the SP this morning so will find out this arvo whether they ate it. They certainly ate the little bit of duckweed I had accumulated before they came, so I'm particularly interested to see how they go on the small azolla as it also has a good protein content, apparently.

Location details below;

CD, thanks for the map and illustrations... I am not particular good with locations of road description... but with a map... will head there later today....

No worries Ivan - Glad it helps !

Can see myself calling in there every couple of weeks if the SPs like it !

I think I'll throw a small bait trap in next time and see if there's any Gambusia !

I have a question though... is taking from that lake considered legal?? Just want to know if I have to be discrete...

Will there be yabbies in there??

With regard to taking it, to my knowledge it's not a problem. There's no signs, it's not a nature reserve or anything and there was some council workers there doing something and they didn't seem to care.

Yabbies - good question.

Sorry about the street name I grew up in that area so have always called it garrett road.
Anyway just remember what ever you take will have replaced itself in a day or two. Though it does tend to slow down over the winter months. I've been collecting it from there for several years.

Didn't grow up here, but it was certainly called that when I move here, so that's what I still call it.

Good point - a dozen of us going there once a fortnight probably wouldn't make much of an impact.