Effects of Probiotics on Survival, Growth and Digestive Enzymes Activities in Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man 1879)

Abstract

A study was conducted to examine the effects of three probiotics, Lactobacillus sporogenes, Bacillus subtilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae on the survival, growth and digestive enzymes activities of the freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii post larvae (PL). The probiotics, L. sporogenes (4 %), B. subtilis (3 %) and S. cerevisiae (4 %) were taken and mixed with basal diet. Diet without probiotics served as control. These probiotics diets were fed to M. rosenbergii PL for a period of 60 days. After the feeding trail, the growth parameters such as survival, weight gain, specific growth rate and protein efficiency rate were found to be significantly (P \ 0.05) higher in 4 % S. cerevisiae incorporated diet fed PL when compared with control. In the case of feed conversion rate just the reverse was seen (P \ 0.05) at this concentration. This indicates its superior quality among different concentrations of probiotics tested. Activities of digestive enzymes, such as protease, amylase and lipase were significantly (P \ 0.05) higher at this concentration (4 % S. cerevisiae). Some of essential and non-essential amino acids also significantly elevated in probiotics supplemented diet fed prawns. This study indicated that probiotics, S. cerevisiae incorporated diets were beneficial for M. rosenbergii in terms of increasing growth, enzyme and amino acid production.

Dietary supplementation use of Bacillus cereus as quorum sensing degrader and their effects on growth performance and response of Malaysian giant river prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii juvenile towards Aeromonas hydrophila

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“…There are several studies demonstrating the positive effects of probiotics Bacillus spp. on the growth of M. rosenbergii(Keysami et al, 2012;Kumar et al, 2013;Mujeeb Rahiman, Jesmi, Thomas, & Mohamed Hatha, 2010;Seenivasan, Radhakrishnan, Muralisankar, & Saravana Bhavan, 2016). For instance,Kumar et al (2013) showed that dietary Bacillus licheniformis addition at 1 × 10 9 cfu/g significantly improved the growth performance in M. rosenbergii juveniles after 60 days of feeding.…”

In vitro protein digestibility of animal, vegetal and microbial feed ingredients for Macrobrachium tenellum

“…In this context, Zhao et al (2015) proved that shrimp feed in which fish meal was replaced by yeast extract, showed a higher apparent protein digestibility (APD) than control treatment in Penaeus vannamei, stating that approximately 45% of fish meal can be replaced by the yeast extract, in the presence of fish oil, phosphorus and calcium. For M. rosenbergii postlar-vae, Prasad et al (2013) suggest that feeds containing 0.5% S. cerevisiae yeast, are suitable to promote growth, although Seenivasan et al (2014) reported that yeast inclusion levels at 4%, improved growth, enzyme activity, and amino acid production. Similarly, Parmar et al (2012) demonstrated that 1% yeast inclusion in the diet improve the immune response, and control of white muscle disease.…”

Effect of dietary protein content on growth rate, survival and body composition of juvenile cauque river prawn,Macrobrachium americanum(Bate 1868)

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