In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology

Document Type : Article

Authors

1 Associated Professor, Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Animal Sciences and Fisheries, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran

2 Former M.Sc. Student, Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Animal Sciences and Fisheries, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran

3 Associated professor, Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Animal Sciences and Fisheries, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran

Abstract


The present study was performed to investigate the effects of various levels of dietary lactobacillus acidophilus as feed supplement on the growth performance, survival rate, hematological parameters and intestinal microbiota of guppy (Poecilia reticulata). For this purpose one-thousand and eight hundred guppy larvae with 7 mg mean weight in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 3 replicates of
L. acidophilus
in the diet, including no bacteria (control), 1.5×107, 3×107, 6×107 CFU g-1(T2,T3,T4 respectively) were considered and fed for 16 weeks. The results showed that significant differences (P4 and control group. The highest amount of white blood cell count (9.70±0.1) was observed in 4 group and had significant different (P>0.05) with control (5.96±0.2). The highest amount of intestinal of Lactobacillus was observed in 4 group compared to other groups and control (PL. acidophilus (6×107 CFU g-1) have significant effect on growth and white blood cell count of guppy.

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