lemon juice for vitamin c?

[living_waters]

i saw a post about home made ways to soak food for vitamins and it mentioned lemon juice for vitamin c i bought a juevinille yellow tang from my lfs thats all screwed up it came with black ich and hlle disease after carefull examination i will be feeding it nori live cabbage algae from my fuge, live brine gut loaded mysis soaked in garlic pellets and i guess some mysis soaked in lemon juice if its ok what do you guys think?

 

[living_waters]

and no it wont be living in my 36g it will be in a 75g

 

[SoLiD]

Maybe, but it might taste bitter to the fish and he may spit it out. It's worth a shot.

On another note; parsley contains some Vitamin C. You might try that too.

 

[Reef Frog]

Since reading a recent post on garlic here on RC that sites several studies on the topic, i am now convinced garlic oil has no real benefit and can be harmful over the long term. I think there are many other ways to provide superior nutrition.

 

[SoLiD]

^^^ If garlic tastes good to fish and it gets them to eat when they normally won't, that's good enough for me. An eating fish is a healthy fish. Sometimes you gotta get your eyes out of the books\webpages and try some of your own experiments. Garlic works man. I've seen it.

 

[Whiterabbitrage]

Since reading a recent post on garlic here on RC that sites several studies on the topic, i am now convinced garlic oil has no real benefit and can be harmful over the long term. I think there are many other ways to provide superior nutrition.

Yup.
I'm a Selcon gal.

 

[Reef Frog]

^^^ If garlic tastes good to fish and it gets them to eat when they normally won't, that's good enough for me. An eating fish is a healthy fish. Sometimes you gotta get your eyes out of the books\webpages and try some of your own experiments. Garlic works man. I've seen it.

I think the OP was talking about using garlic for long term use, like a vitamin.

I agree that if a fish is not eating, and garlic prompts it to eat, then that is a very good thing indeed. I also don't doubt that garlic oil is a valuable appetite stimulant in many cases. (But I have never heard of a case where it was needed on an on-going basis to KEEP a fish eating in SW aquaria.)

The post I cite is thought provoking, of scientific quality & not anecdotal evidence, observation or hearsay. Its long. And i am not suggesting it is the last word on the topic. But the part on long term fish health is what i was referring to. The author references numerous papers Check it out for yourself. Sometimes you gogta revisit preconceived ideas or commonly held beliefs too!

 

[living_waters]

I have to say the the black ich has gone away after two days of garlic soaked mysis I was going to perform a fresh water dip this morning and I saw it was gone.....

 

[goodtimes2]

I am also a big fan of dripping the Selcon product on my Nori before putting it in the tank .

 

[ingtar_shinowa]

+1 Selcon