Health issues during larval rearing

The only other virus known in lobsters is the white spot syndrome virus (WSSV), which has been the causative disease agent of major pandemics in penaeid prawn culture systems. WSSV has been demonstrated to be present in gills, stomach, hepatopancreas and epidermis of P. versicolour, P penicillatus, P longipes and P ornatus in experimentally infected lobsters 

Shell disease in lobsters has been linked primarily to Gram-negative, chitinoclastic, rod-shaped bacteria with Vibrio, Aeromonas, Pseudomonas and Shewanella being the most commonly isolated bacterial genera (Shields et al, 2006). The ability to grow on chitin is limited to a number of bacterial groups within Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria and Firmicutes (Hunt et al, 2008), all of which have been detected in spiny 

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