IFAS Extension
Release Date: 11/11/2025
Agriculture
Abstract
About this Publication
This document is FA55, one of a series of the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date November 2001. Revised July 2005 and October 2025. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.
Authors
clinical associate professor, aquatic diseases, UF College of Veterinary Medicine; and section head of aquatic disease diagnosis, Bronson Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
professor and Extension veterinarian, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program, UF/IFAS Extension Tropical Aquaculture Lab, Ruskin, FL
professor and UF/IFAS Extension veterinarian, UF College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Program