Comparative microbial community occurrence pattern, growth attributes, and digestive enzyme indices of Puntius gonionotus (Bleeker, 1850), Pangasianodon hypophthalmus (Sauvage, 1878) and Heteropneustus fossilis (Bloch, 1794) under freshwater biofloc based polyculture system.
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Abstract
Background: The biofloc system (BFS) provides a sustainable aquaculture system through its efficient in situ water quality maintenance by the microbial biomass, besides continuous availability of these protein-rich microbes as feed to enhance growth and immunity of the reared organism. This study explores the gill architecture, growth performance, digestive enzyme activity, intestinal microbial composition, and histology of three freshwater fish species, Puntius gonionotus, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, and Heteropneustus fossilis reared in biofloc based polyculture system.
Results: The three species in T2 showed significantly higher WG and SGR, followed by T1 and T3. The wet mount of gill architecture showed smaller inter-filament gaps in gill arches of silver barb followed by stinging catfish and stripped catfish, but showed no correlation with the weight gain. However, silver barb being an omnivore and filter-feeder, accumulated a more diverse microbial community, both in T1 and BFS (T2 and T3), while the bottom feeder H. fossilis exhibited unique gut bacterial adaptability. The presence of floc in T2 and T3 enhanced bacterial abundance in water and fish gut, but their microbial diversities significantly reduced compared to T1 receiving only feed. Next-generation sequencing revealed that the Pseudomonas dominated in gut of P. gonionotus and P. hypophthalmus in T1, Enterobacterales and Fusobacterium prevailed in those of T2 and T3, respectively. In contrast, gut of H. fossilis had the highest proportion of Clostridium in T1, while Rhizobiaceae dominated in T3. Similarly in floc samples, Enterococcus dominated in T1 while Micrococcales and Rhizobiaceae dominated in T2 and T3, respectively. A positive correlation of enterobacteria, with the digestive enzyme activities and growth patterns was observed in all treatments.
Conclusion: The present study revealed feeding behaviour to play crucial role in distinguishing the gut microbial composition patterns in fishes reared in Biofloc System. Further it revealed the requirement of supplementary feed along with floc in these three species for higher growth in the biofloc system.
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BMC Microbiology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on analytical and functional studies of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, viruses and small parasites, as well as host and therapeutic responses to them and their interaction with the environment.