One Sample. Every Microbe.
Discover what's helping or harming your livestock by identifying
every pathogen and beneficial microbe on your farm
with Detect.
Identify the Microbes of Interest
From hatchery to harvest, microbes interact with your livestock. They directly influence water quality, nutrient cycling and livestock health. Understanding which microbes are present and why they matter is essential to sustainable stock management at each stage of production.
Advanced DNA Sequencing
Powered by metagenomics, Detect analyses every DNA molecule in a sample, providing a complete view of the microbial community living alongside your livestock. This approach identifies the microbes of interest relevant to your operations, without the need for prior suspicion.
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Enhanced Pathogen Detection
Detect multiple pathogens in one sample, including novel strains that go undetected by targeted pathogen detection methods.
Full livestock population insight
Traditional diagnostics sample from one fish at a time. Water sampling captures the microbes present in the entire livestock population.
Observe beneficial microbes
With just one sample we also detect beneficial microbes that play a significant role in livestock health and disease resilience.
Monitor microbes of interest
Detect the microbes that are relevant to specific stages of production and track their presence over time.
Improve Livestock Health with Microbiome Analysis
Managing an aquaculture system without microbiome data is like walking through a dark warehouse with nothing but a small flashlight. You can point it in one direction to see if a problem exists, but you only see part of the picture. Metagenomics doesn't just give you a bigger flashlight. It turns on the floodlights.
Comprehensive Insights Through Water Sampling
Water sampling captures the entire microbial community shared among all the livestock in a system. This delivers a comprehensive understanding of system health, pathogen presence, and overall microbiome dynamics.
Microbiome Data Comparison
Water Sample vs. Traditional Single Fish Diagnostics
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Swab Sampling for Targeted Insights
Swab sampling provides a direct window into the microbiome of individual livestock, capturing the microbial communities present on gills, skin, and other tissues. This targeted, host-specific approach works in tandem with water sampling to build a complete picture of your aquatic system's microbiome.
Easy to Interpret Microbiome Insights
Metagenomic sequencing generates complex data. Our reports turn it into clear, actionable insights.
Each report highlights the microbes of interest relevant to your production stage, presented with relative abundance and their association with aquaculture. You can quickly see what microbes are dominant, emerging or changing. Results are contextualised to your environment, helping you understand what microbes matter and why.
What Our Clients Say
Real results from real aquaculture operations
"The metagenomics service provided by Esox Biologics revealed just how little we know about the microbiomes occupying our waters. It provides the microbiological context we need to improve the welfare of our fish."
Dr Andre Van
Health Manager at Kames Fish Farming
"Working with Esox Biologics is a pleasure. Their metagenomics service gave me insights that qPCR and histology data alone could not. Their ability to resolve total microbiomes greatly assists my ability to make diagnoses."
Dr Matt Metselaar CertAqVet
Owner of Aquatic Vets Limited