How to feed garlic?
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Aquarist007
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I prefer to use garlic guard. You can soak flake food and mysis cubes in it overnight and then feed to the fish in the morning.
There is a lot discussion right now about the neg affects of garlic on fish so I only feed them 3 times a week.
IMO always practise moderation
There is a lot discussion right now about the neg affects of garlic on fish so I only feed them 3 times a week.
IMO always practise moderation
There's different flake and pellet brand foods that contain garlic, I use new life spectrum. Also, I've used minced organic garlic and now currently use ecosystem's garlic elixir. I soak frozen foods in it for 30-45 minutes then feed. I have 3 small tangs that I've fed garlic to since the day I got them and no ich or disease yet!
There is no reason to believe garlic will enhance the immune system of marine fish, particulary the preserved types . Even with humans the immuno boosting agent in garlic is allicin which is active for only an hour or two after a fresh garlic is squeezed.Sea chem garlic guard claims to have allicin in it. Even so there is nothing to suggest that fish can benefit from it the way human's do. It is most definately not a cure for cryptocaryon irritans(ich).There is no substitue for quarantine and treatment with copper, hyposalinity or via the tank transfer method.
stuccodude
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i would use garlic(less stress) then as a last option treatment. i had ich bad 1 year ago and all i did is start soaking food in garlic. now i only do it once every couple weeks.
If the fish has ich you have two choices.
Take your chances on a hope and cope strategy with low stress, good nutrition perhaps with garlic,uv sterlilization, cleaner shrimp and other things that may or may not help but won't cure it. And don't introduce any new fish into your system for 11months which is the time it will take for a strain to expire after a maximum of 34 reproductiuon cycles.Even if your fish survives it is most likely that it has a developed only a partial resistance and the ich will still survive in the tank unseen usually in the gills. Any new fish introduced paricularly a tang.even a properly quarantined specimen,will likely spark a new outbreak
Remove all fish in the tank and treat with copper,hyposalinity or the tank transfer method leaving the main display fishless for several months,
Good Luck.
Take your chances on a hope and cope strategy with low stress, good nutrition perhaps with garlic,uv sterlilization, cleaner shrimp and other things that may or may not help but won't cure it. And don't introduce any new fish into your system for 11months which is the time it will take for a strain to expire after a maximum of 34 reproductiuon cycles.Even if your fish survives it is most likely that it has a developed only a partial resistance and the ich will still survive in the tank unseen usually in the gills. Any new fish introduced paricularly a tang.even a properly quarantined specimen,will likely spark a new outbreak
Remove all fish in the tank and treat with copper,hyposalinity or the tank transfer method leaving the main display fishless for several months,
Good Luck.
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there is no evidence garlic cures itch, some reefers believe garlic can prevent it, again there is a lot of discussion about that, i agree with the earlier comment about moderation and the comment about quaranteen and copper, dont be put off by garlic using it in moderation with food has not been proven to be dangerous but there is evidence that it can harm the fishes liver in high doses, but whats a high dose?
garlic
there is no evidence garlic cures itch, some reefers believe garlic can prevent it, again there is a lot of discussion about that, i agree with the earlier comment about moderation and the comment about quaranteen and copper, dont be put off by garlic using it in moderation with food has not been proven to be dangerous but there is evidence that it can harm the fishes liver in high doses, but whats a high dose?
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