“…Water in commercial mussel ponds is frequently exchanged, and the pond effluent contains waste materials including nitrogen, phosphorus and organic matter (Tang et al, 2015). The effect of C/N ratio on water quality has been evaluated in shrimp ponds (Roy, Hassan, & Boopathy, 2010;Xu et al, 2016), fish ponds (Perez-Fuentes, Hernandez-Vergara, Perez-Rostro, & Fogel, 2016;Yu et al, 2016) and fish-shrimp polyculture ponds (Rohmana, Surawidjaja, Sukenda, & Ekasari, 2015). However, the optimal C/N ratio in mussel-fish integrated systems and its effect on water quality and bacterial community remains unknown.…”