stuccodude
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how many people out there have had luck with garlic curing ich, im not asking if garlic will work or not just who has had success, thanks
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reefergeorge
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Garlic doesn't cure ich. It just helps build up the immune system so the fish can fight it its self.
stuccodude
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its proven that mosquitos dont like to feed on people with garlic in there system so why cant fish with garlic in there system ward off ich, not kill but will not host that fish in return with no fish to host, the parasite dies. i have 4 tangs and my first was a blue tang and a powder blue, tank was about 2 months old and the poor fish were infested really bad and someone said to soak the food in garlic and within a week ich was gone, i added a purple tang, yellow tang, clown fish etc over a month span and no ich. all these new people that get ich and have to set up a hospital tank, remove half there rock to catch the fish, stress them out when all they have to do is soak there food in garlic, kent extreme garlic that is.
Diver4life
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what about using pure garlic from the grocery store? will work?
Garlic is unproven. Fish do sometimes shake off crytocaryon irritans(ich) without treatment. Wether garlic helps or not is not known. The garlic concentrates sold by hobby companies such as Garlic Guard and Garlic Extreme do no harm and the fish seem to like them. However, the active ingredient for immuno boosting in humans is allicin and this only remains active for about an hour after the garlic is pressed so it is very doubtfull that preserved garlic concentrates will benefit the immune system. Even if fresh garlic is used, there is no gaurantee that it will effect the system of a marine fish in a therapuetic way, assuming the fish is able to process it at all. Having said all of that ,I use it and it does no harm and maybe it does some good. My major concern with it is that many may look to it as an alternative to treatment (copper or hypo ) and good quarantine practices.
Diver4life
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thanks tmz
stuccodude
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all im saying is before someone buys a qt tank just try garlic and let the results be the proof.
reefergeorge
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I had a sailfin tang get a mild case of ich. In a week it was all gone, and has never came back for over a year. I think the cigarette smoke in the room cured the ich. What do you think?
You can't argue with years of science. The only way to CURE ich is hypo or copper. Garlic just helps keep a fish eating.
stuccodude
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religion and science are the bases of the biggest arguments in the world.
kau_cinta_ku
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and when the garlic don't work then get ready to qt all the fish that the ich infested fish came into contat with
If you have ich in your tank and your situation allows you to get the fish out of the display without serious damage to an established reef then by all means do so and treat them in quarantine.,leaving your tank fishless for up to 72 days. Certainly quarantine new specimens. When this can not be accomplished. You can hope the fish will overcome the parasite and help them cope for the 11months it will take for a strain to die off. They sometimes do survive ich via good nutrition and low stress,efforts to control secondary infection; pristine water,( constancy in all parameters including temperature ,ph and salinity). In the hope and cope mode many use uv sterilizers, cleaner shrimp, garlic ,diatom filters, "reef safe" miracle cures,neon gobies often with ich themselves and a myriad of other things and techniques.
As I noted earlier garlic may or may not help. But then garlic does a lot of things. It keeps vampires away,doesn't it?
