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  • Disaster Strikes

    Power outage kills babies while oysters fruit

    Last thursday our 1000 catfish fingerlings arrived and now two of our towers are inhabited by the little creatures. In the night of saturday22—sunday23 there was a power outage. More than 250 baby...
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  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Release of Channel Catfish

    Richmond Aquaponics farm receives inhabitants

    The Channel Catfish for the Richmond aquaponics farm have arrived! This video shows their release.

  • A Silly Beast

    Choked in his friend

    On the morning of Friday's workshop, we found this floating around in Tower 2:

  • The Ultimate Miniponics Manual

    How to build it yourself

    The miniponics system is a cute little one, attracting a lot of attention from visitors. Read here how you can build it yourself.

  • Prevention rather than cure

    Old saying true for us

    Fish are like humans. They have all kinds of slumbering diseases and they have an immune system that helps them defeat the pathogens. Just like us.

  • Back in circulation

    A change of scenery in two weeks

    Whaaaaat! So much can change in two weeks, it's unbelievable! When Saro and I entered the tent today after Christmas family visits, surprise after surprise greeted us.

  • New baby fish at the Fabriek

    Clarias gariepinus | African sharptooth catfish

    After the deaths of around 400 of our fish due to a power failure, we were sadly left with two empty systems. Time to take action, before the bacteria in the systems would die as well.

  • Fungal Disease

    New tank proves too cold for our African Catfish

    The fish that have been placed in the greenhouse with the last workshop unfortunately all died of a fungal disease. Last wednesday 28th may the first fish got sick and showed some cottony-white...

  • Enormous vertical aquaponics farm in Chicago

    In an abandoned warehouse

    There has been some talk in the aquaponics community about the question whether aquaponics can be done commercially succesful. Here's an example, it's called FarmedHere

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    When life hands you catfish...

    The aquaponics team makes a minor mishap into a major feast

  • Workshop

    with new system design

    Mediamatic wanted an aquaponics system in their greenhouse office at the Fabriek, so during the workshop we built one upstairs. It's a new design, because the tower wouldn't fit underneath the glass...

  • The babies

    Finally some better pictures

    It's quite hard to catch the little stick-in-the-muds on camera. Here are some better pictures.

  • Vertical Farming Ikea-stijl

    Verslag van KamerVragen op 21 februari 2013

    ‘Boeren‘ in de stad, het is mogelijk en iedereen kan het. Dit werd gisteravond door Willem Velthoven van Mediamatic en John Apesos van Simbicity gedemonstreerd tijdens KamerVragen in de...
  • From our Faraway Friend Wendy Monroe

    Trial and Error

    A photo essay

    Our system with the five half barrel beds is up and running now, the plants in the beds have taken root and we will be taking delivery of 30 Channel Catfish next week. We will be getting them from...

  • Miniponics succes

    Many people want it at home

    After two days of workshops using the miniponics as a demonstration model, we can say it's a big succes.

  • The Flying Aquaponics Team in Izmir

    November 15 and 16, 2013

    Contemporary art organization K2 in Izmir is currently in the middle of the process leading to an exhibition in March 2014 about the ecology of the city. They invited us to do an aquaponics workshop...

  • Sharkviewer

    To view our monsters

    Here's an idea! Let's make a shark viewer so we can make nice pictures of our little monsters. Or we could hook up a webcam!

  • A system in Museon

    Part of exhibition '#stad van de toekomst'

    The Mediamatic Aquaponics Team was invited to build an installation at the Museon in Den Haag. It's become part of an exhibition about the future of cities.

  • Too big, too many

    The catfish are growing

    Yesterday we experimented with different techniques to measure our catfish.

  • Aquaponics in deserted factory Manchester

    From the Guardian

    Excerpt: Orchards, crops and a fish farm will fill the empty spaces of a former printworks as the Biospheric Foundation comes to Salford. Christopher Arden reports

  • One more reason to grow your own fish

    Mekong-catfish toxic and hazardous

    Belgian newspaper De Morgen wrote an article about the panga fillet you can find so cheap in the supermarket's freezer. Not a very appealing bite after you read this: Pangasius: de waarheid over de...

  • Blue LED's and bioballs

    Canadian commercial aquaponics farm described

    Broadcaster CBC published a story about a new commercial aquaponics farm. It's interesting to read, because they do some things differently.

  • Catfish Holiday

    European catfish move to summer residence

    Our second attempt to populate the greenhouse fish tank after a false start.

  • Dealing with pests

    The pineapple sage infestation

    With the changing of the seasons and the drop in temperature, some plants in the unheated greenhouse become more susceptible to pests and infestations as they are perennial, such as the Pineapple...

  • A new system!

    Thanks to the workshop participants

    Last friday we built a new system. It's about time too, because the catfish are a little bit overstocked.

created Els Engel modified Els Engel

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