Effect of dietary probiotic Biogen® supplementation as a growth promoter on growth performance and feed utilization of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (L.)

By E. El‐Haroun, A. Goda, M. Kabir Chowdhury. 2006

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Probiotic microbial feed supplements are gaining wide acceptance in livestock production, and may be applicable to aquaculture production systems. The present study was conducted to examine probiotic treatment in the fingerling diet of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (L.). A total of 240 of Nile tilapia fingerlings (weight ranged from 22.96 to 26.40 g) were divided into five experimental groups. The experiment was conducted for 120 days. Experimental diets were identical in all, except for the variation in probiotic levels. A probiotic (Biogen®) was used at 0% (diet 1), 0.5% (diet 2), 1.5% (diet 3), 2.0% (diet 4) and 2.5% (diet 5) inclusion rates in the experimental diets. The growth performance and nutrient utilization of Nile tilapia including weight gain, specific growth rate, protein efficiency ratio, protein productive value and energy retention were significantly (P≤0.01) higher in the treatment receiving probiotic (Biogen®) than the control diet. No differences were observed for moisture, ash and protein content (P≤0.01) among the experimental diets. The lowest gross energy and lipid contents were recorded for fish fed the diet containing 0.5% Biogen® (P≤0.01). The production performance and subsequent cost–benefit analyses clearly indicated that the diets containing probiotic biogen recorded the highest net return and the lowest total cost compared with the control diet.

Subfields: Aquatic Science, Immunology

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The use of probiotic in aquaculture: an overview (2011, background): “…protease and lipase) that increase the digestibility of organic matter and protein, produce a higher growth, prevent the intestinal disorders and produce or/and stimulate a predigestion of secondary compounds present in plant protein sources (Lara-Flores et al., 2003; El-Haroun et al., 2006).”
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The Gut Microbiota of Marine Fish (2018, positive): “Despite this, when successfully administered, probiotics have been found to reduce the cost of ﬁsh farming through improvements in ﬁsh welfare and nutrition (El-Haroun et al., 2006).”
Evaluation of Bacillusamyloliquefaciens on the growth performance, intestinal morphology, hematology and body composition of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (2014, background): “Aly et al. (2008b) and EL-Haroun et al. (2006) reported an earlier improvement in WG and SGR as well as FCR after feeding O. niloticus with B. subtilis.”
Effects of Inactivated Enterococcus faecalis and Mannan Oligosaccharide and Their Combination on Growth, Immunity, and Disease Protection in Rainbow Trout (2013, result): “Similar results have been shown in previous studies (El-Haroun et al. 2006; Vandenberg and Moccia 1998; Rodriguez-Estrada et al. 2009) where fish with significantly higher growth after experimental treatments also had a slightly higher whole-body lipid content compared with individuals with lower…”
Assessing the use of a dietary probiotic/prebiotic as an enhancer of spinefoot rabbitfish Siganus rivulatus survival and growth (2007, background): “El-Haroun et al. (2006) found similar effects of Biogen supplementation on feed utilization by Nile tilapia.”