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JOURNAL OF THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 296-301Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-7345.2007.00099.x
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Five groups of juvenile white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, in triplicate were separately fed a compound diet with additional short-chain fructooligosaccharides (ScFOS, Profeed (R) 95%) 0, 0.4, 0.8, 1.2, or 1.6 g/kg dried diet for 8 wk to investigate the effects of ScFOS on the intestinal microflora, survival, and growth performance of the shrimp. The juvenile shrimp with around 0.17 g of initial body weight were divided into 30 per tank and reared in a standard water recirculation system at 28 C. The shrimp were fed five times a day. At the end of experiment, the shrimp were weighed and their intestinal samples were analyzed for the amounts of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Aeromonas hydrophila, Lactobacillus sp., and Streptococcus faecalis using selective agar. The results showed that the shrimps' weight gain and specific growth rate increased with the increment of dietary ScFOS, while their feed conversion ratio decreased. The result was the best when an additional ScFOS 0.4 g/kg dried diet was used.
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