How to get the oil out of the Cake?
Doc I been asking that very question on this site for a long time. Nobody has ever published a detailed method of extracting the oil from the lipids.
So far....nothing!
This guy is not a friend. In fact we are enemies.
But nobody is there during the day and I have a long handled net. I'll put some panty hose inside the existing net and capture a bunch of it in a Five gallon bucket.
I'll have the bucket 3/4 full and see if it grows, etc.
But it's been there over two years now, and still in existence about like it was the first time I saw it.
Scum on wild stock ponds goes away if the wind blows or it gets chilly. Same with our huge lake.
I used to think the Herons ate fish. That they fished by sight. But on the days when the Scum is covering the pond, the Herons do just as well. They have some way of seeing through the scum, or they are striking at a movement in the scum, or they are eating crustaceans just past the edge of the Scum.
They don't let me get close enough to see!
Ducks wont land on the scum. If the scum covers the whole pond the Ducks get out. Or fly away.
When the pond scum is thick, you can see the Gator trails

etc in the Scum.
It takes a day or so for the Scum to close up the Trails. So I think the wild stuff grows fast, but not thick.
It's raining today, a good time to assess the Scum in the pond and down at the Farm pond.
DIck