“…The analysed biofilms in the two biofilters had many taxa in common at the end of the rearing cycle. The dominating taxa common for both biofilters included Neptuniibacter , Glaciecola , Colwellia , Kordia , Flavobacterium , Algibacter , Planctomycetes (OM190) and members within Saprospiraceae and Alteromonadaceae , which were closely related to cultured organoheterotrophic species isolated from seawater and marine habitats worldwide (Arahal et al., 2007; Bernardet, 2015; Bowman & McMeekin, 2015; Deming & Junge, 2015; Kim, 2015; McIlroy & Nielsen, 2014; Nedashkovskaya & Kim, 2019; Xiao et al., 2019). However, few of the dominating taxa detected at genus level in this study were recognized among dominating taxa described in previous studies from aquaculture systems (Brailo et al., 2019; Rurangwa & Verdegem, 2015; Schreier et al., 2010).…”