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    Disaster Strikes

    23
    Dec 2012
    - 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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  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop

    Aquaponics Tour

    Aquaponics is a method of sustainable farming in which food can be produced within the city, made possible by the small amount of space the system needs. An ecosystem is essentially created from...

  • 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.
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Building Aquaponics Systems

    26
    Apr 2020
    - with Saro van Cleynenbreugel

    Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.
  • Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Building Aquaponics Systems

    26
    Jan 2020
    - with Saro van Cleynenbreugel

    Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines the cultivation of vegetables and fish. It is one of the best ways to produce food in the city, because it hardly takes up any space.

  • A Silly Beast

    Choked in his friend

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

  • Greenhouse 1

    First T-system

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

  • 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.

  • Tower 1

    From the museum

    Setup: Tower Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Aquaponics tent Built: 7 September 2012, Transnatural Festival

  • Fish, plant, rack

    Quasi symbiotic environment for machine, fish and hydroponics

    Andy Gracie's work allows the electrical discharges of the virtually blind elephant fish to instruct the actions of a robot whose task is to monitor the development of plants in a hydroponic...

  • Tower 2

    First tower, second system

    Setup: Tower Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Aquaponics tent Built: 26 May 2012

  • Aquaponic Kitchen

    When life hands you catfish...

    The aquaponics team makes a minor mishap into a major feast

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Tower 3

    From North

    Setup: Tower Fish: Catfish Location: Fabriek, Aquaponics tent Built: 10 October 2012, Festival of Cools

  • 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.

  • Tower 4

    First and longest

    Setup: Small system, mushrooms in top Fish: Minnows, goldfish, cross breeds Location: Fabriek, Aquaponics tent Built: May 2012

created Willem Velthoven modified Els Engel

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