Supplementation with effective microorganisms in earthen ponds affects common carp growth and abundance of specific bacterial families
Michalina Jakimowicz, Katarzyna Sidorczuk, David Huyben, Falk Hildebrand, Łukasz Napora-Rutkowski, Piotr Hajduk, Marek Sztuka, Magda Mielczarek, Dawid Słomian, Laura Jarosz, Joanna Szyda · 2026
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Michalina Jakimowicz's team ran a 2026 field trial on adding effective microorganisms, bought blends of helpful microbes, to common carp ponds. Over 103 days in twenty-five earthen ponds, two products were dosed into feed and water. Microbial communities were sequenced in water, sediment, and fish intestines, and fish growth was tracked, testing whether the blends take hold or simply pass through.
The dosed families never settled clearly in the pond waters, and the resident communities stayed broadly unchanged. Yet fish under certain treatments grew plainly better. Benefit without colonisation suggests the products act in passing, perhaps during digestion, rather than by reshaping the pond. For farmers seeking growth without antibiotic residues, the authors present that as a hopeful, if puzzling in mechanism, result worth chasing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Michalina Jakimowicz, Katarzyna Sidorczuk, David Huyben, Falk Hildebrand, Łukasz Napora-Rutkowski, Piotr Hajduk, Marek Sztuka, Magda Mielczarek, Dawid Słomian, Laura Jarosz, Joanna Szyda |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65064 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |