Does Garlic help ich
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MotherFish
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You are correct.
There are only a few confirmed methods for treating Ich, and garlic isn't one of them.
Please read WaterKeeper's sticky at the top of this forum about some of the proper methods for treating Ich: Have ICH looky here!!!!!
I've used the juice from garlic for many years for my freshwater tanks, soaking pellets, flakes, frozen foods never had a ick breakout in 5 years, I've been running my reef tank now for about 5 months also soaking foods in garlic juice not a trace of ick, if it works for you do it..
stricknine
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+ 1 Indy and corndork2?
Soaking food in garlic is like vitamin C. Nothing proven, not a treatment, but seems to be a great preventative measure. I soak all my food.
Dont do anything to your main tank as it will harm everything in there except the fish. Leave the main tank alone, take the fish in to quarantine(hospital tank), and treat that wether it be hyposalinity or copper. Leave your main tank fallow/fishless for a month atleast while the occupants are in quarantine.
Soaking food in garlic is like vitamin C. Nothing proven, not a treatment, but seems to be a great preventative measure. I soak all my food.
Dont do anything to your main tank as it will harm everything in there except the fish. Leave the main tank alone, take the fish in to quarantine(hospital tank), and treat that wether it be hyposalinity or copper. Leave your main tank fallow/fishless for a month atleast while the occupants are in quarantine.
xJake
Active member
Does vitamin C cure the common cold?
The answer to your question is about the same. People popularly believe that it does, but the great majority of the evidence is either circumstantial or relies on the illogical argument that "I took vitamin C and I didn't catch a cold; therefore that proves that vitamin C helps fight the common cold."
I don't buy into it, and until I see some logical and factual evidence to the contrary then I still won't buy into it. Garlic isn't a solution for improper quarantine - which is the best way to deal with ich before it becomes an epidemic in your aquarium. Quarantine all of your animals for at least 4-6 weeks before introducing them to the main display, and properly treat any infected animals with PROVEN methods.
Wow... I guess that's what I get when I write a post and then forget to hit submit for over an hour. Lol...
The answer to your question is about the same. People popularly believe that it does, but the great majority of the evidence is either circumstantial or relies on the illogical argument that "I took vitamin C and I didn't catch a cold; therefore that proves that vitamin C helps fight the common cold."
I don't buy into it, and until I see some logical and factual evidence to the contrary then I still won't buy into it. Garlic isn't a solution for improper quarantine - which is the best way to deal with ich before it becomes an epidemic in your aquarium. Quarantine all of your animals for at least 4-6 weeks before introducing them to the main display, and properly treat any infected animals with PROVEN methods.
Wow... I guess that's what I get when I write a post and then forget to hit submit for over an hour. Lol...
Freed
It's what it's
http://www.ecoaqualizer.com/fishdisease.htm
The above is also a link on reefland as well. Totally bogus just as is the use of garlic to cure or "immunize" the fish against it.
BELIEVE all you want but there is no proof whatsoever that garlic is good for anything but garlic bread.
The above is also a link on reefland as well. Totally bogus just as is the use of garlic to cure or "immunize" the fish against it.
BELIEVE all you want but there is no proof whatsoever that garlic is good for anything but garlic bread.
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abulgin
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I have personally tried this, both soaking food in garlic and adding Brightwell Aquatics Garlic formula to food. Neither one cured my fish of ich; in fact, all fish eventually died. The only thing that has worked for me over the years is getting the fish out of the tank and into a hospital tank, and then treating the fish appropriately, either with a copper formulation or hyposalinity (my preference is copper when the fish is up to it).
poolkeeper1
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They all say myth, but it worked for me in reversing the disease on a tang in a 185 reef that could not be caught without great damage to the tank. Used Garlic Guard daily in the tank and in it's food. Saw improvement in day's and completly gone in weeks. But there is no proof, or is there?
stricknine
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Again in my opinion, garlic is a vaccine or a premedative, not a cure. If you HAVE ich, dont count on garlic to relieve you of the infection. Treat the disease (parasite) accordingly (copper or hypo). [I ran in to the same problem months ago with a sick fish, increased my feedings (with garlic as usual) with no result. Treated the sick fish with coper, and looks to be cured. The other non infected fish are ok-thanks to garlic or not cant be proven)
I agree with all the pros and cons above, but IMHO, dosing garlig 24/7 is not a bad idea.
GL with the sick ones.
I agree with all the pros and cons above, but IMHO, dosing garlig 24/7 is not a bad idea.
GL with the sick ones.
MotherFish
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That was exactly my first thought when reading the reefland link above.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14249889#post14249889 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Freed
Wow, that's amazing that the ich disappeared just like it does in it's normal life cycle
One poster was amazed that after using garlic for a couple of days all the Ich disappeared from the fish.
Obviously that person didn't know that Ich only feeds on the fish for a few days and then drops off naturally on it's own to begin the next phase of it's lifecycle.
They could have danced in a circle and spit 3 times on the floor and the result would have been the same, doesn't mean it helped or is a cure.
Unless there is a documented scientific study proving garlic does anything to affect or treat Ich I'm going to have to keep it filed under "often repeated folklore".
Freed
It's what it's
Numerous people are amazed by it and then spread it as a cure, which it isn't. Then others see this "cure" and follow it as gospel. If they would study the actual FACTS about ich and the only proven cures, they would realize that garlic is a total myth at this point in time.
This is why it's so frustrating to try to help people when so much misinformation is being spread as actual fact.
