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Recurrent Amoebic Gill Infestation in Rainbow Trout Cultured in a Semiclosed Water Recirculation System
Author(s) -
Noble A. C.,
Herman R. L.,
Noga E. J.,
Bullock G. L.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of aquatic animal health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.507
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1548-8667
pISSN - 0899-7659
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8667(1997)009<0064:ragiir>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - rainbow trout , gill , biology , juvenile , aquatic animal , fishery , infestation , zoology , trout , incubation , fish <actinopterygii> , ecology , botany , biochemistry
Five lots of commercially purchased juvenile rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (17–44 g) stocked in a continuous‐production water recirculation system became infested with gill amoebae. The amoebae were introduced into the recirculation system, as evidenced by their presence on gills of fish held in quarantine tanks. Based on their morphology, as seen in histological sections and by electron microscopy, the amoebae appeared to be more closely related to the family Cochliopodiidae than to other taxa of free‐living amoebae. Attempts to culture the amoebae in different media, at different temperatures of incubation, and in fish cell culture were not successful. Initial treatment of the recirculation system with formalin at 167 parts per million (ppm) for 1 h eliminated amoebae from the gills. Subsequent treatments of the entire system with formalin at 50–167 ppm reduced the intensity of further infestations.