Garlic in feeding regimin?

[Ooulophilia]

Hey, I am getting my breeding setup keyed in and am curious if anyone has tried feeding garlic to rotifers? If they are able to injest selcon one would think they could take in one of the garlic pastes. If one believes all of the claims that the manfacturers make this should stimulate feeding and bolster their immune systems (the clowns, not the rotifers... or wait - super rotifers!). If no one has tried it, once I have rotfers to spare I will try it and report back.

 

[Dman]

I can't imagine it trashing water quality any worse than IA.
Thing is can you get garlic small enough to feed to rotifers?

 

[Ooulophilia]

The garlic elixer from Ecosystem is a gritty paste - I am going to try and force it through a fine mesh. Kent has a product called garlic Xtreme which appears to be more of an oil, which may also work. I know the fry are predominantly visual hunters, but I would assume that smell plays some role.

 

[Kathy55g]

garlic press and mortar and pestle would be my choice, then fine mesh.

 

[Dman]

I don't think even a fine mesh would help if feeding to rotifers, the oil would work, I mean what's the avereage size of a Nannochloropsis Occulata cell? 1-2 microns?

 

[Ooulophilia]

Update - I have a few tubs of rotifers now, and tried both forms of garlic on a small scale. The garlic elixer just sank to the bottom, but the oil based garlic extreme clouded the water a little, but after 20 mins the water had cleared somewhat - I fed the rotifers to some small chromis who went for them. Once I have fry, I think I will include this with the selcon before I feed out the rotifers.