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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.

  • Catfish Holiday

    European catfish move to summer residence

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A Silly Beast

    Choked in his friend

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

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...
  • 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...

  • Big fish, big food

    We just learned something new! Lately our big fish (they're approaching 300 grams now) weren't eating very well, but we couldn't find a cause. Until we ordered new fish food for them.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Greenhouse 2

    Second T-system

    Setup: T-system Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Greenhouse Built: 22 February 2012

  • End of exhibition Eindhoven

    De etende mens finished

    Last June, we brought one of our tower systems to the Designhuis in Eindhoven, to feature in the exhibition " De etende mens ". We also made a system merged with João's Diesel Kantine.

  • 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.

  • Germination Experiement

    Sprouting seeds

    Which is the best way to raise our seedlings for life in the aquaponics system?

  • Greenhouse 1

    First T-system

    Setup: T-system Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Greenhouse Built: 11 January 2012

  • Field Peas

    Growing field peas in an aquaponics greenhouse

    Although our shade cloth can cool the greenhouse on hot days, it is still nice to have some complete shade inside. We have created some extra shade by just using some string and field peas.

  • Trout timeout!

    The big one chases the small one

    Who knows why trout in captive chase each other? The big trout gives the small one just not a second of rest.

  • 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...

  • Too big, too many

    The catfish are growing

    Yesterday we experimented with different techniques to measure our catfish.

  • 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

  • Structuring processes

    Backing up our assumptions

    Our oldest system has been running for one and a half years now and we've seen happening a lot to it in this time. Ebs and flows, births and deaths, seeds and fruits. To have this experience is...

  • 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 Sam Brown-Kenyon

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