Keeton Industries, a manufacturer of targeted probiotics and aquaculture systems for shrimp farming, freshwater and saltwater fish farming, has begun a long-term study of the microbiomes within shrimp pond water infected with White Feces Syndrome (WFS).
The goal is to collect microbiome data from WFS-infected ponds in order to determine the triggers for microbial changes in a shrimp grow-out pond.
“This knowledge would allow the development of probiotic treatment regimens to maintain microbial diversity in the pond and the shrimp,” Keeton Industries President Luke Keeton said in a paper prepared for the recently held AquaExpo conference, which took place at the end of October in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Appearances of a newer form of WFS were first recorded in …
