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Blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus has not anchored the roots in aquaculture due to non availability of commercial seed production. Letdown of seed production is owing to microbial infections. To combat with microbes, study was aimed to isolate and screen probiotics from the gut of female crab for larviculture. Based on characteristics of inhibitory activity against pathogenic V. harveyi, V. parahaemolyticus and P. piscicida, bile, acid, salt tolerances and survival in sea water, isolates were identified as L. plantarum, L. salivarius, L. rhamnosus W. confusa and W. cibaria and evaluated for probiotics. A new model small scale in vivo validation was developed for conformity of the isolates as probiotics for P. pelagicus larviculture. The LAB isolates were administrated as water additive at concentrations 10^ sup 2^, 10^ sup 4^ and 10^ sup 6^ cfu mL^ sup-1^ for one day and five days in vivo validation experiments and …