This sucks..

It's almost a requirement nowaday it seems...

and gens are so **** cheap... on Ebay, used, garage sales, etc...

Funny how people will blow $500+ on lighting to keep $1000's of live rock and coral alive...

But a $300 or under Honda on ebay is out of the question...

My buddy scored on the little portable 1000e Honda for like $399 and used 2x. what a great deal.

and my other bud bought a Honda Harmony 2300w gen for $300 and all he had to do was buy a carb rebuild kit for $30 and it runs like a champ cause the owner before him left the fuel in with no stabalizer.
 
Mogurnda,

To suport your theory of cryptocaryon irritants being present in the aquarium in a healthy environment, I will say yes. There can be a number of fish that are carriers of this parasite but are healthy enough to not allow the crypto to actually develope into its full cyst stage which is wahat we see on a fish as white spots. I have timae and time again proven this to be true in various situations. It has always been a contraversy as to the presents of crytocaryon in most fish being present at all times. This is kind of a loaded question and theory at best. If you are running a completely sterile tank and you have treated all your fish prior to going into the tank for crypto and you are 100% sure that you do not have crypto present on any fish already in the system, then more than likely you do not have it present. However, most of the people out there do not have this type of set up and more than likely do have the parasite present but in a dormant stage. If there is a stress in the sytem which weakens the imune system of the fish, it will allow the parasite to take advantage of the weakening to do what it does best, multiply. We know that crypto is prolific in most waters around the world and fish have the ability to keep it under control in optimum conditions. If this was not so, then we would not have any fish in the ocean. I do have tanks that I know for sure have the parasite in them as it rears its ugly head on ocasion but with the health of the tank it is gone within a day or two without medications or ill effects.
 
I agree that fish--SW and FW--can have sub-clinical levels of infection, most frequently in the gills. The fish live comfortably with one or two parasites--this is the goal of the parasite. Parasites that kill hosts don't thrive. But, too many people insist that ich just springs from nowhere, and don't recognize that the parasite must be introduced in order to be present. If a tank runs fishless for a few months, it will not have ich present, until it's brought in on a sub-clinically infected fish.
 
good news - the perc is back up and happy and spiffy.... Everyone has electricity again and what not, and about the generator thing - You're all right, and we learned our lesson. We're getting one soon

Tim
 
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