GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF PACIFIC WHITE SHRIMP Litopenaeus vannamei LARVAE FED PREBIOTIC AND PROBIOTIC THROUGH ARTEMIA

Abstract

This study aimed at determining the effect of prebiotic, probiotic and synbiotic enrichment through
artemia on survival, growth and stress tolerance of Pacific white shrimp larvae. The life stage of Pacific white
shrimp larvae used in this study was the nauplius 6 with an average weight of 0.6±0.08 mg/larvae and the
treatment was started at mysis 1. The shrimp larvae were reared in a jar with a total water volume of two liters
and at a density of 100 larvae/l. The study consisted of four treatments and three replicates: control, prebiotic,
probiotic and synbiotic. The stress test with 200 ppm of formalin solution was performed after the larvae
reached the post-larvae 10 stage. The results showed that synbiotic enrichment through artemia had the highest
survival rate (41.50±3.61%), daily growth rate (17.55 ± 0.65%) and the lowest mortality rate when tested with
200 ppm formalin solution (33.33 ± 10.41%).