“…Biofloc technology system is a shining star of aquaculture production system, which provides a lot of benefits such as improves water quality, immunity, growth and survival of culture species, and in other side, it minimizes the water and feed input and effluent production (Kumar et al., 2018). In general, biofloc system encompasses more bacterial communities compared with clear water aquaculture system; however, bacterial community of BFT varies according to the carbon source, C/N ratio, stocking density and floc characteristics (Deng et al., 2018, 2019; Huang et al., 2020; Li et al., 2018; Panigrahi et al., 2018; Qiao et al., 2020). In BFT system, using different carbon sources, various studies have been conducted, in recent times, which tried to establish a relationship between the bacterial communities of water and gut microbiome of Nile tilapia (Li et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2019; Perez‐Fuentes et al., 2018).…”