Efficacy of Probiotics on Survival, Growth, Biochemical Changes and Energy Utilization Performance of <i>Macrobrachium rosenbergii</i> (De Man 1879) Post-larvae

Abstract

The efficacy of combined probiotics, Lactobacillus sporogenes and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (LS+SC) on survival, growth, biochemical changes and energy utilization of Macrobrachium rosenbergii post larvae (PL) was examined. Each probiotic organism was individually tested at four different concentrations (1-4%) separately. The best concentration in each probiotic species was combined and tested for its suitability in aquaculture usage. The basal diet was incorporated with probiotics, LS+SC (4:4) at five different concentrations 0% (control), 1%, 2%, 3% and 4%. These diets were fed to M. rosenbergii PL for a period of 90 days. After the feeding trail, 2% LS+SC incorporated diet had significantly (P<0.05) higher survival, WG, SGR, FCE and PER compared with other experimental groups than the control. Whereas, the FCR was significantly (P<0.05) lower in 2% LS+SC incorporated diet fed PL. Similarly the proximate composition of the protein, amino acid, carbohydrate, lipid and ash content were significantly (P<0.05) higher in 2% LS+SC incorporated diet fed PL than the control. The energy utilization parameters were significantly (P<0.05) higher in 2% LS+SC incorporated diet fed PL than the control. This study indicated that combined probiotics, LS+SC incorporated diets were beneficial for M. rosenbergii in terms of increasing growth and enhancing energy utilization performances.

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“…licheniformis supplemented diets produced significantly the best performance (Table 7). Similar nutritional indices have been reported in M. rosenbergii PL [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][36][37][38]. It has been reported that the biochemical constituents and immune expression were increased significantly in the shrimp, P.…”

“…However, use of commercial Bacillus subtilis and B. licheniformis as probiotics either in a single form or in the combination manner has raised a promising hope for aquaculture species including shrimp [7]. Seenivasan et al, [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Jayanthi et al, [16,17] Karthik et al, [18,19] and Manjula et al, [20] have extensively reported that commercial probiotic products (Binifit TM , LactoBacil ®plus and ViBact*), individual and combined probiotics (Lactobacillus sporogenes, B. subtilis, Lactobacillus brevis and Bacillus coagulans) have promoted the survival, growth, and total protein, carbohydrate and lipid, and profiles of amino acids and fatty acids, and activities of digestive enzymes (protease, amylase and lipase) in M. rosenbergii PL. In the view of the above, in the present study was aimed to incorporate B. licheniformis at different serially diluted concentrations (10 -2 -10 -10 ) in formulated diets and fed to M. rosenbergii PL for assessing its optimum colony formation unit (CFU) for better activity of digestive enzymes, survival capacity, growth promoting ability and nutritional quantity of total protein, amino acid, carbohydrate and lipid.…”

Significance of Fermented Food in Nutrition and Food Science

“…The term fermented foods is used to describe a special class of food products characterized by various kinds of carbohydrate breakdown in the presence of probiotic microorganisms; but seldom is carbohydrate the only constituent acted upon [1]. growth, biochemical changes and energy utilization performance is immense [9]. Probiotics may be consumed either as food components or as non-food preparations.…”

Growth Promoting Potential and Colonization Ability of Probiotics (Bacillus coagulans and Bacillus subtilis) on the Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii Post-Larvae

“…Presence of E. coli in the gut of control prawn (10 -4 , ViBact*, Bini it TM and Biogen® incorporated diets [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. Similarly, the dietary administration of Lactobacillus plantarum, Bacillus sp., and C. butyricum also produced a signi icant improvement in growth, carcase biochemical constituents, and activities of digestive enzymes in shrimps, Litopenaeus vannamei and Marsupenaeus japonicas [12,[43][44][45][46].…”

“…Biogen, Bini it TM , LactoBacil ® plus and ViBact* [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14], showed enhanced growth, survival, and nutritional pro iles due to improved general health by establishing their colonies in the gut. Bacillus coagulans is a Gram-positive, lactic acid forming bacterial species.…”