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Daily Check List

Weekly Check List

Monthly Monitoring

Feed Requirements

Essential Nutrients

Additional Nutritional Factors

Feeding Regime

Water Quality Requirements

Water Quality Action and Reaction

Water Quality Management and Biofilter Maintenance

Post larval fitness parameters

Post Larva Acclimitation

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Risk Management, Bio-security and HACCP Implementation

Harvesting

System Disinfection Procedures

Equipment Maintenance

Record Keeping and Report Templates

Health Management and Disease Control

For vannamei in RAS

Remember: Good management practices reduce stress factors.

Variables to be used in health evaluation:

Survival Rate Mortality Rates Growth Rates

Size Variation Feed Conversion Ratio Shrimp Appearance

Health evaluation tests and procedures:

Wet Mount Procedure Post Larvae visual examination and fitness Stress test for post larva

Gill examination Mid-gut Intestine Fullness Examination Stomach Contents Analysis

Disease control:

Decreasing density, partial or early harvests Drugs, chemicals and treatments Sanitation

Shrimp Disease, Pathogens and Syndromes in Grow-out

Viruses

Baculovirus penaei (BP) Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic virus (IHHNV) White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)

Hepatopancreatic parvo-like virus (HPV) Reo-like virus (REO) Lymphoid organ vacuolization virus (LOVV)

Taura Syndrome Virus (TSV) Rhabdovirus of Penaeid Shrimp (RPS)

Bacterial Diseases

Vibriosis nr Necrotizing Hepatopancreatitis (NHP) nr Epicommensal fouling disease (filementous bacteria) nr

Black spot disease (BSD) nr Mycobacteriosis nr

Fungal Diseases

Larval mycosis Note: only affects larva Fusariosis

Protozoans

Haplosporidia Gregarines Cotton Disease

Other

Black Gill Disease (BGD) nr Dissolved Oxygen Crisis Nitrogen Gas Bubble Disease

Further References

1. J.A. Brock and K.L. Main. A Guide to the common Problems and Diseases of Cultured Penaeus vannamei.

2. Further links here