Garlic in the blender??

[Zooguy]

I got a powder blue the other day and he looked fine, eating like crazy,,,but today I noticed ick.
I feed the fish the frozen cubes of whatever it is(for tangs). Can I put that cube and a piece of garlic into my blender and mix them up and then just pour it in the tank????
What size garlic 1/4 ich square or bigger. Should I let it set or mix and pour?
If this tang goes, Im not going to get another powder blue? So I want this one to die of old age.

 

[Percula9]

I would buy the Garlic extreme from your LFS and soak the food for 20 min. I guess you could do the blender thing.

 

[Neptune777]

As it turns out Fresh Garlic is much more effective than processed garlic products like Garlic Extreme..............the compounds in garlic considered effective break down very quickly so the name brand garlic products really don't do much other than maybe stimulate appetite.

 

[Zooguy]

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Ummm do fish eat garlic? Like floating around after it gets shredded by the blender with the tang food?

 

[Neptune777]

Yes they will, and you can soak their regular food in fresh garlic puree.

 

[Zooguy]

How much

How much

How much garlic? 1/4 inch or 1/2inch cube.
And when you say soak, how long,,,like from the blender to the tank or 20 minutes. Do I blend the garlic and then put a whole leaf in it or blend them both together.

When I blend a cube of garlic with tang food in it I just pour it in the tank. Is this going to do anything to the rest of the tank. It just seems that Im puting alot of garlic in my tank, what happens to it. Will it foul the water(build up) or does it go away?

Will a Scarlit cleaner shrimp eat ick? or do they eat other types of parasites.

Will a sand sifting starfish eat ick on the sandbed?

Thanks for the replys

 

[Neptune777]

Your shrimp will not put a dent in the Ich outbreak....and scarlet shrimp are not known to be parasite cleaners.

Use a clove of fresh garlic, soak it for 10-20min.....put the food in the tank and try some bits of garlic as well to see if they eat it.

Should not have any affects on other animals.....it will break down naturally and get consumed. Your protein skimmer will do a fine job pulling everything out...

Garlic is safe....you shouldn't have any worries........it's effectiveness is very much in question though when it comes to Ich.

You would be much better off pulling all fish from the display tank and put them in a QT with a Hyposalinity treatment for 6 weeks.

You could aslo do the transfer method every 3 days. That is you have a couple QT's set up and all parameters in check with regular salinity levels.....put all fish into one tank and then remove them right at 3 days into the fresh clean tank. Drain, clean and dry the first tank and then get it ready for the next transfer in 3 days. Repeat this process 4 times.....this will break the life cycle of the parasite and would be much more effective than the garlic.

 

[Zooguy]

Its working

Its working

Well its been a week now and the powder Blue tang is looking much better. Ive been putting the tang food and frozen miases shrimp in a littel coffee grinder with a chunk of garlic and griding it all up and letting it sit for 10 minutes. I also went out and got 2 cleaner shrimp, the kind with the white strip down the back and boy I have to give those 40(20 each) dollar shrimp some credit. They wernt in the tank 20 minutes before the tangs found them and started letting them do there job. The powder blue would let one get on and he would freeze and sink to the bottom and almost lay flat on his side on the bottom while the shrimp picked off ick. Every time the shrimp would pull one off hed give a twich,,,like ouch.
Between that and the garlic I think the fish is going to be ok. Even the yellow tang and the flame angel is getting in on the action. Gotta love those cleaner shrimp. Now if I can only get the garlic smell out from under the tank from the skimmer.

Thanks for your advise,,,it worked.