The objective of this experiment was to test the probiotic E¢nol s L during transportation of cardinal tetra, Paracheirodon axelrodi (Schultz). For the transportation, ¢sh were distributed in 18 plastic tanks, of which nine contained the E¢nol s L (10 mg L À 1 ; probiotic treatment) and the remaining had no probiotic (control treatment). Transport lasted 24 h and three di¡erent boxes of each treatment were sampled at 3, 12 and 24 h. Up to the 12-h sampling period, no sig-ni¢cant di¡erence in the survival was observed; on the other hand, survival was higher at the end of the transport (24 h) in the probiotic treatment. No significant di¡erence was found in dissolved oxygen and temperature between treatments. Conductivity, pH and alkalinity increased along the transport, but without a di¡erence between treatments. Ammonia increased in all treatments, although it was signi¢cantly lower in the probiotic group at 24 h. Cortisol levels were signi¢cantly higher in all transported ¢sh when compared with the basal values. At 24 h, cortisol levels in control ¢sh were signi¢cantly higher than those in the probiotic treatment.With the observed results, we are able to conclude that the probiotic E¢nol s L is e⁄cient during cardinal transport, lowering the mortality and helping maintain water quality possibly by lowering metabolic wastes.
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