Treatment with dextrose or molasses required approximately 12%
of the water used by the control group because water was not exchanged in these groups ( Table 2 ). Such reduction in
the amount of water required for the hatchery phase of shrimp
aquaculture would proportionally reduce the costs associated with
the capture, disinfection, neutralization, heating, and pumping
of water for hatcheries. At a commercial scale, converting conven-
tional hatchery systems to BFT systems supplemented with
organic carbon could result in substantial reduction in production
costs. Reducing the amount of water required for the hatchery
phase of shrimp aquaculture would also decrease environmental
impacts and improve biosecurity.