The Kedron Brook Catchment Group met for its monthly meeting at the Downfall Creek Environment Centre on Rode Rd. Steve Baines talked about native fish and showed a lot of wonderful colourful slides.
If you want to see some great fish photographs you might Google Gunter Schmida.
Some of the points he made:
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Don’t release your aquarium fish in our waterways. They become invasive and damaging and predatory.
Telapia were first released in Australian streams in the Pine Rivers area. They are all over Australia now.
Pacific Blue-eyes are ideal for your fish pond to eat the mozzie lavae. They are frog friendly and don’t eat the frog eggs.
Each creek has its own unique coloration of fish. The fish in your creeks and rivers are unique to that creek or river. Don’t translocate fish!
We have lungfish in the Pine Rivers area.
Dead cane toads in a small water body are a threat to fish.
Gambusia are everywhere.
Native fish breed fast. Mop heads with a bit of polystyrene to make them float are ideal places for them to lay their eggs.
220 litre Bunnigns dark UV stable tubs are ideal fish ponds.
Barramundi grow from 2cm to a foot in an aquarium in 6 months.
There are a number of diseases our native and exotic fish get that are transferable to humans so be wary of handling dead or diseased fish without gloves. Wash hands well.
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President Robert Standish-White filled us in on some of the great activities the Kedron Brook Catchment Group has been doing including a recent canoe trip among the mangrove creeks behind the airport.
Keperra Country Golf Club has asked the Kedron Brook Catchment Group to look at helping to improve some parts of Kedron Brook that flow through the Club. We have never had access to the Creek here before. They are concerned it is getting covered with weeds.
Some locals have called in for advice with areas of their local parts of the Creek (in Keperra and Upper Kedron).
The tree planting in Bob Cassimaty Park will be on Saturday 3rd March with the Men of the Trees. Come early before it is too hot. A maintenance group is needed in this park too.
The Kedron Brook Catchment Group has a new Facebook page so if you LIKE it you will get updates.
All of us who care about our Brook and Catchment could well consider joining the Kedron Brook Catchment Group which cares so well for our local area.