Aquaculture in general and shrimp farming in particular have recently developed super-intensive farming strategies without water exchange. This approach addresses environmental issues raised by both society and the scientific community regarding sustainable development concepts that require a convergence of ecological prudence, economic efficiency and social equity in all human activities (Bailey, 1988; Brown, 1989; Pruder, 1992 ; Macintosh and Phillips, 1992;Kestemont, 1995; Pioneering works such as Reid and Arnold (1992) and Williams et al. (1996) demonstrated that it is possible to produce high-density shrimp in pipeline systems using water recirculation. Recent advances in super-dense culture, also known as “suspended growth systems” (Hargreaves, 2006) and “active suspension ponds” (Avnimelech, 2006), reinforce the idea that it is possible to produce aquatic organisms in intensive and above all bio-safe way. The absence of effluents, the reduction of space used and the drastic reduction in the introduction of infectious diseases are the main criteria to justify its development (McNeil, 2000; McAbee et al., 2003; Burford et al., 2003, 2004 Pruder, 2004; Azim and Little, 2008; Although this relatively new aquaculture technology is still under development (De Schryver et al., 2008), significant research efforts have been made with the aim of understanding the physical, chemical and biological phenomena present in water that dictate the dynamics of cultures (Hopkins et al., 1993; Sandifer and Hopkins, 1996; Avnimelech, 1999; Some studies suggest that farming shrimp in a closed system (without water exchange) can maintain a water quality considered acceptable for these organisms (Thakur and Lin, 2003). Others suggest that the quality of the water, despite being “poor” due to the large amount of nutrients that accumulate over time, is sufficient to guarantee the growth and survival of animals (Burford et al. al., 2003). Hargreaves (2006) criticizes most of the studies concerning these so-called ''suspended growth systems'', because they suggest that the role of bacteria in relation to maintaining and improving water quality is more important. than that of phytoplankton metabolism. The importance of primary productivity in the cultivation (extensive, semi-intensive, polyculture, etc.) of different organisms is well documented (Noriega-Curtis, 1979; Leggi and Malecha, 1981;,