Benefits of probiotics to the health of the aquatic species; the probiotics a modifies the host associated or the ambient microbial species by enhancing an improved nutritional value, use of the feed or also by increasing the response of the host towards the threat of a disease and also by ensuring an improved quality ambient environment of the aquatic species. The probiotics have been associated to treating many health problems and this can only be related to their influence on aquatic species.
Probiotics are important for growth/survival of aquatic species. They can regulate growth because of their function in achieving a balance between good and bad bacteria within the body of the species (Vijay et al, 123). From the balance achieved, the organisms’ body are able to achieve a regular working of the body; thereby promoting growth and survival.
The probiotics are also very essential in the growth performance and also the activity of the shrimp digestive enzyme. A supplement of the probiotics stimulates the productive performance of the aquatic life. The probiotics are a source of nutrients and also enhances the enzymatic contribution to digestion. It has been found that Bacteroides and Clostridium sp have had a great contribution to the nutrition of the host especially in the supply of vitamins and the fatty acids (Sharon et al, 345). In addition, some of the probiotic bacteria may also participate in enhancing the process of digestion of the aquatic species through the production of extra-cellular enzymes, which includes proteases, lipases which makes the digestion process to be faster and also very much easier for the aquatic species.
Probiotics also stimulates the non-specific immune system of the aquatic species thereby increasing their resistance to dieases. This is according to has been demonstrated that oral administration of Clostridium butyricum bacteria to rainbow trout enhanced the resistance of fish to vibriosis, by increasing the phagocytic activity of leucocytes (Brown, 23). This therefore makes it very essential that the use of such kinds of the probiotic in the aquatic life. The aquatic nature is always surrounded by a lot of threats caused through thee environmental pollution of water and other natural resources. It is therefore very important to ensure that the correct types of the robotics are administered to the aquatic nature in order to strike a balance with the natural environment (Muth, 23). The probiotics helps the aquatic life by through the control of Competitive exclusion.
Bacterial antagonism with the aquatic species is a very common phenomenon in the natural world. This therefore implies that the microbial interactions of the probiotics play a very major role in striking an equilibrium between competing microorganisms which are beneficial to the aquatic life and those that are pathogenic to the aquatic species (Hutkins, 234). However, the environmental conditions and the husbandry practices that stimulate the multiplication of the microorganisms are also mainly contributed to by the environmental conditions
The probiotics also helps to improve the water quality of the aquatic species. Bacillus sp greatly contributes toward the improvement of water quality. The process of improving water quality is on the basis of the fact that gram positive bacteria act as good converters of organic matter. In which case, the process of production cycle helps in minimizing the concentration of dissolved organic carbon. The use of probiotics improves water quality through the process of reducing the pathogenic vibrios. As the result, the bacteria perform actively in improving the water quality by reducing the amount of pathogens.
Work cited
VIjay K. Juneja, Mohamed Ahmedna. Probiotics in Food Safety and Human Health. 2015
Sharon Rady Rolfes, Kathryn Pinna, Ellie Whitney. Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition. NY: Cengage Learning, 2014.
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