Evaluating the effects of dietary intake of encapsulated Lactobacillus plantarum KC426951 on growth, survival rate, blood and serum factors and gut bacterial flora of Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

In this study, the effects of Lactobacillus plantarum KC426951 on growth, survival rate, blood and serum factors and gut bacterial flora of rainbow trout were investigated. For this purpose, 90 fish with an average weight of 12.94±0.35 g were fed for 8 weeks with the diets containing different amounts of encapsulated Lactobacillus plantarum including treatment 1 (107 CFU/g), treatment 2 (108 CFU/g) and the control treatment without Lactobacillus plantarum (T0). The results of this study showed that the highest weight gain, percent of body weight gain, specific growth rate and the lowest feed conversion rate were observed in the treatments 1 which were significantly different as compared to those of the control treatment (P0.05). In blood factors, the numbers of white blood cells in the treatments containing bacteria were significantly higher than the control treatment (P0.05). According to the results, the numbers of lactic acid bacteria in the treatments containing bacteria (1 and 2) were significantly higher than the control treatment. The total bacterial count in the treatment 1 was significantly higher than that of the other treatments (P