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In the anticipated wait for the barra, my mate and I started a bigger barra fingerling pen. .... I stuffed up. .... and turned the sump pump off so to see what we where looking at. Lost all the nutes, O2 water, and water level.....Barra here in less than 4 hours..........not good

It all looks ok ?

really, pumping town water in, no timer, need ,mass o2 quickly, otherwise will get a CIG bottle in the morning , 7 am

How much water lost, and what is total system volume?

approx 1700 Lt minimum, considering what may of been in the GB's at the time, I am lucky, I have done worse

5000 litre system wasnt it?

25% is not too much to worry about, just run the pump all night, dont stress, it will be fine.

<------had many 90% water changes, with fish in the system

While adding the water make it fan so it aerates and disperses some of the chlorine.

one of EB'd Delux systems, six beds, 3000 lt tank and sump........... soul destroying ... and why tonight, the fish are just comming on a 13 hour hot road trip, ........... off to bed will log on later in the early hours of the morning, with a fatality, or a surviving batch............

They should be fine - the water will be fully aerated by morning.

if the 250 odd fish dont deplete it,...I will be suprised if the tank eco doesn't colapse

No it wont - may spike a bit, but its been established for long enough to take pretty much anything.

I would be very extremely surprised if there was mass fish deaths.

Think you'll be fine Jessy... all the "good guys"... the nitrifying bacteria are in amongst the growbed media... and that should have stayed moist... unless you left them dry for a whole day...

The Barra will provide you with new "nutes".... may get a small spike as OBO says...

and could push a bit of a spike if you feed the Barra after you get them... but you wont be feeding them for at least a day anyway... will you ...

WOW they made it, I am in the middle of a slow transition into the tank. They looked half dead on arrival, placed the bubbler into each bag and am slowly adjusting water temp So far so good, been a long day for them, over a 14 hour road trip, probably any longer, and might not of made it in such good condition

mmmn, some didn't have the best travel story to tell see how things look in the morning

Now we have two HSMs going
You and Rope can exchange notes
stay on top of it Jessy

Our thoughts are with you Jessy!