An experiment was conducted in eighteen 200-m2 fertilized earthen ponds at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, from March through October 2000. This experiment was designed to assess the efficiency of snakehead (Channa striata) in controlling recruitment of mixed-sex Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in ponds and to assess growth and production characteristics of Nile tilapia in mon...

A total of 177 motile Aeromonas spp., comprised A. hydrophila (n=162) and sobria (n=15), isolated from the water, sediment, gills intestines tilapia collected grow-out culture earthen ponds in Philippines were investigated for their antimicrobial susceptibility to 10 antibiotics commonly used fish aquaculture. All spp. tested generally exhibited a very high percentage resistance amoxicillin (A....