| dc.description.abstract | One of the constraint on tilapia cultivation is presence of streptococcosis disease caused by Streptococcus agalactiae. Application of synbiotic is one of alternative in controlling the streptococcosis disease in red tilapia. The aims of this research were to compare the effectiveness of synbiotic application in feed fish in artificial feed (PB) and commercial feed (PK) to study the growth performance and to prevent the streptococcosis in red tilapia. Probiotic strain used in this research was NP5, whereas the prebiotic was prepared from extract of sweet potato from sukuh variety. Treatments in this research were positive control with feeding without supplementation of synbiotic & infected by S. agalactiae, negative control with feeding without supplementation of synbiotic & injected by PBS (Phosphate Buffer Saline), and feeding with the addition synbiotic & infected by S. agalactiae. Each treatment was tested on artificial feed (containing protein of 23%) and commercial feed (containing protein of 38%). Feeding treatment was given within first 30 days and on 31st day all fish (except negative control treatment) were challanged by intramuscularly injection of S. agalactiae (109 cfu/ml). The mortality rate was observed daily within 6 days. Result showed that the growth and the feed efficiency of fish fed by commercial feed was higher than that of artificial feed. Application of synbiotic could increase the feed efficiency in both of artificial feed and commercial feed although have not resulted the better growth. Moreover, the synbiotic could increase immune response and the survival rate of tilapia post challenge test. Treatment of synbiotic in commercial feed and artificial feed resulted survival rate of 83.33%, whereas the survival rate of positive control was only 25% (P<0.05). | en |
