Abstract:The results of acute toxicity test of ammonia-N on Penaeus monodon carried out by biological toxicity test showed that effect of toxicity has a significant positive correlation with the ammoniaN maintained time and concentration. In the condition of seawater 30℃, pH=8, S=34.5, the half lethal concentration of ammoniaN were 52.63 mg/L, 39.68 mg/L, 31.65 mg/L and 29.94 mg/L, lasting for 24 h, 48 h,72 h and 96 h respectively, and the safe concentration was 2.99 mg/L. In the same concentration , half lethal concentration of nonionic ammonia were 3.23 mg/L, 2.43 mg/L, 1.94 mg/L, 1.84 mg/L respectively and the safe concentration was 0.18 mg/L. The effect of ammonia-N level of 29.9 mg/L on immune parameters of Penaeus monodon showed the variation trend of different immune parameters :including activity of phenoloxidase (PO) decreasing in the whole of study, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidase (POD) activity in serum increasing at first after ammonia-N stimulated and then decreasing, acid phosphatase (ACP) activity increasing at first after ammoniaN stimulated, then decreasing and increasing at last within 96h. ANOVA indicated that the activities of PO, SOD, POD, ACP in eight sampling points(0 h, 4 h, 8 h, 12 h, 24 h, 48 h, 72 h, 96 h) had significant difference (P< 0.01), while the control groups all had no significant difference (P> 0.05). Acute toxicity result, changes of different immune parameters in high ammonia-N stress and influence of high ammonia on the immune system obtained in this study provide a scientific basis for the healthy development of culture of Penaeus monodon.