Application of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens as probiotic for Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931) cultivated in a biofloc system

This work was supported by Conselleria d’Educacio, Investigacio, Cultura i Esport of the Generalitat Valenciana trought it is PhD scholarship (ACIF/2014/244), which has been developed within the PhD programme in Science and Technology of Animal Production at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV). We also thank the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) for their host during the stay in which this experiment was conducted. Flavio Longo and Alvaro Ortiz for providing us Ecobiol Plus® probiotic and for all their advice.