Marine Fish Retailers
Protect your reputation by helping ensure the livestock you sell arrives healthy at its new home. Identify potential pathogen risks before they become customer losses and complaints
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Diagnostics Built Around Your Facility
The Alminix Beacon System brings qPCR testing directly into your facility. Get timely insight into pathogen risk, without relying entirely on external laboratory turnaround, so your team can make more informed decisions when they matter most.
Who It's For
Built for the Way You Operate
Select your facility to see how Beacon can support your aquatic health and biosecurity needs.
Marine Fish Wholesalers
Protect high-value shipments from costly losses. Get earlier insight into potential pathogen risks before infected livestock moves through your facility and out to customers.
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Protect valuable collections from pathogen threats. Monitor the health of quarantine systems, exhibits, and other aquatic environments to help identify risks before they spread.
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Protect production and reduce the impact of costly disease events. Monitor pathogen risks across your systems and gain timely information to support faster, more informed decisions.
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Your Livestock Moves Fast. Your Diagnostics Should Too
For marine fish retailers, every new shipment brings new biosecurity considerations. Livestock may come from different suppliers, pass through quarantine, and eventually enter systems containing established inventory.
Traditional laboratory testing can make it difficult to get timely information when you need it.
Common Challenges
Waiting for laboratory results
Samples need to be collected, shipped, processed, and reported before your team can act on the results.
Managing incoming livestock
New arrivals can introduce pathogens into quarantine or established systems.
Protecting valuable inventory
A pathogen problem can quickly affect livestock, systems, and customer confidence.
Limited access to testing
Traditional qPCR testing can require specialized equipment, laboratory access, and trained personnel.
How Beacon Helps
With the Beacon System, your team can collect water samples and perform qPCR testing on-site. Results are transmitted through Revere to the Beacon Portal, where they can be reviewed, reported, and tracked over time.
See How Beacon WorksMarine Fish Wholesalers
More Livestock. More Systems. More Risk to Monitor
Wholesale operations manage large volumes of livestock moving through multiple systems, suppliers, and shipments. With so much movement, knowing what is happening inside your systems can be critical to maintaining biosecurity.
Common Challenges
High-volume livestock movement
Large numbers of animals can move through your facility every day.
Multiple sources and systems
Different suppliers, shipments, and holding systems can create additional biosecurity considerations.
Time-sensitive decisions
Waiting for external test results can make it harder to respond quickly when concerns arise.
Limited visibility over time
Individual laboratory tests may provide an answer for one sample, but make it harder to see changes and trends across your operation.
How Beacon Helps
Beacon gives wholesale facilities a way to perform qPCR testing on-site and centralize results through the Beacon Portal.
Your team can test systems as needed, monitor results over time, and maintain a clearer picture of pathogen levels across your facility.
See How Beacon WorksAquariums & Zoos
Protect Your Collection With Better Visibility
Aquariums and zoos manage complex aquatic environments where new animals, quarantine systems, exhibits, and shared life-support infrastructure can all play a role in biosecurity.
Beacon gives aquatic animal care teams access to on-site qPCR testing without requiring every sample to be sent to an external laboratory.
Common Challenges
Protecting established collections
Introducing new animals can create additional pathogen risks for an existing collection.
Managing quarantine systems
Quarantine is an important part of biosecurity, but monitoring can require frequent testing.
Multiple exhibits and systems
Large facilities may need to monitor pathogen levels across many different aquatic environments.
Laboratory turnaround times
External testing can add delays between collecting a sample and receiving results.
How Beacon Helps
Beacon brings qPCR testing directly into your facility, allowing teams to collect samples, run tests, and access results through the Beacon Portal.
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Monitor Pathogen Risk Across Your Production System
In aquaculture, pathogen problems can affect large numbers of animals and move quickly through connected systems. Timely information can help teams understand what is happening across their operation and respond more proactively.
Common Challenges
Disease can spread quickly
A pathogen issue in one system can potentially affect other connected or nearby production systems.
Large numbers of animals are at risk
The impact of a health problem can multiply quickly across a production facility.
Multiple systems need monitoring
Production, nursery, quarantine, and holding systems may all require different levels of monitoring.
Testing takes time
Sending samples to an external laboratory adds shipping and processing time to the testing process.
How Beacon Helps
The Beacon System gives aquaculture facilities access to on-site qPCR testing and centralized data through the Beacon Portal.
Test systems as needed, monitor changes over time, and build a clearer picture of pathogen activity across your operation.
See How Beacon WorksFrom Sample to Insight
One System. From Sample to Report.
The Beacon System is more than a qPCR analyzer. It connects testing, data collection, reporting, and monitoring into one ecosystem.
Step 01
Collect
Collect a water sample from the system you want to monitor.
Step 02
Test
Run the sample through Beacon, the Alminix qPCR analyzer, using Alminix reagents.
Step 03
Connect
Revere, the Beacon receiver, securely relays test data to the Beacon Portal.
Step 04
Monitor
Review results, generate reports, and monitor pathogen trends through the Beacon Portal.
Built for Facilities of All Sizes
Start Small. Scale With Your Operation.
You don't need a massive laboratory or production facility to benefit from on-site pathogen testing.
Beacon is designed to give smaller facilities access to sophisticated qPCR technology while providing larger operations with a centralized way to manage testing across multiple systems.
Whether you're monitoring a handful of tanks or an entire production facility, the Beacon System can fit into your operation.
The Future of Animal Health Diagnostics
What's Next for Alminix?
Our work doesn't stop with fish.
Alminix is developing a broader diagnostic platform with plans to expand beyond aquatic species, including future applications for animals such as cats and dogs.
We're building toward a future where accessible, on-site diagnostics can support animal health across more species and more types of facilities.
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Beacon is designed for facilities that need to monitor aquatic animal health and pathogen risk, including marine fish retailers, wholesalers, aquariums, zoos, and aquaculture facilities.
Bring Diagnostics Closer to Your Operation
Whether you're protecting a retail system, managing a large aquatic collection, or monitoring a production facility, Alminix gives you a more accessible way to bring pathogen testing into your own operation.