iche and garlic

[SuRFeR BoY]

i need some help. do i add the garlic to there food? do i chop it up and feed them the garlic? how should i go about this? i read that a few of you guys feed this to your fish to pervent iche. please let me know how i should go about this. thanks guys

 

[Pedro]

Well i have always used the powder capsules from GNC. It's called Kyolic. I simply mix the powder with the food and feed it. This has always been my method. I have never treated for ich any other way. Just keep feeding it and don't give up. You have to wait for the life cycle of the ich to end.

 

[ezee]

Surferboy,

I don't know that I would use straight garlic. Try a supplement, I like Kent, myself. Very easy to use, just several drops in the food.

E

 

[Tim]

Use the kent garlic extreme it works great....

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

kent the marine supplement company manufactures it?

 

[ezee]

Surferboy,

Yes.

E

 

[lfsmarineguy]

yes they do it's in a small plastic tube with the jar and dropper top inside. Black plastic cap and purple label it's called "Garlic Extreme". Be careful with it it's smell is capable of being used in pranks... Anyway, garlic is a very good way of helping to get rid of or avoiding ich in a reef tank, but in all honesty the best thing I have ever done to my tank to combat parasites is my UV sterilizer.

 

[efisher]

I also use the kent stuff.

 

[marrone]

Most food now has garlic b eing added to it, so depending on what food you're feeding fish there isn't a need to add garlic to it.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

the amount of garlic added to the food is just to stimulate a feeding response. It's kind of the same as adding nicotine to cigarettes (except the garlic is beneficial). It gets the animals to eat it but it's not going to help repell parasites.

 

[marrone]

the amount of garlic added to the food is just to stimulate a feeding response. It's kind of the same as adding nicotine to cigarettes (except the garlic is beneficial). It gets the animals to eat it but it's not going to help repell parasites.

They're not adding garlic to food now to stiumulate a feeding response, they're adding it to help build up the fish immune system so that it was have a better change to fight off parasites. They started to add garlic after a lot of people were feeding it to their fish, to help fight off parasites. Spectrum Threa +A actually has quite a bit of garlic in it as does the Formular I & II now.

 

[efisher]

I personally dont worry about ich. My Tangs have had it and I used garlic when they did and I feed them Spectrum A+ everyday and also, run a UV. I haven't seen a sign of ich in about 6 months. When I first started out several years ago I tried hypo and chemicals and wiped my entire tank and that was before corals. I will never use any chemicals in my tank again. Personally I worry more about getting AEFW and red bugs.

 

[clamcrazy]

i used to just soak some food in garlic oil.

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

i went out and bought the garlic extreme. boy those that stuff stink lol... so far they are scarfing it up.. thanks everyone

 

[mavl666]

I used fresh garlic cloves and hung them in my tank making sure my the water curent passed over them. I would replace them every 2 or 3 days making sure they weren't rotting in my tank. I also turned off my skimmer the first 2 days and then slowed the rest of the time.

 

[wxl14]

Also let it marinate in the food for about 30 minutes. One thing that helped ich in my tank is Garlic and Cleaner Shrimp. Get small cleaner shrimp as fish are more likely to allow a small shrimp to jump on them. Good luck. Also i alway feed garlic now twice a week. And the fish are in really good shape.

 

[marrone]

I used fresh garlic cloves and hung them in my tank making sure my the water curent passed over them. I would replace them every 2 or 3 days making sure they weren't rotting in my tank. I also turned off my skimmer the first 2 days and then slowed the rest of the time.

Not sure why you want to do this as it wouldn't have any impact on the ich in the water. As for the fish, unless you're hoping that they're going to drink the water, and get the garlic in them that way, I think that somewhat of a strench.

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

the garlic extreme says that you can add it to the water as well. i have been just putting it in there food everyday and they all look great..well for now its just a yellow tang and a blue fiji damsel. i had a sixline that looked perfectly fine and was eatting strong but just dissapeared . grrr anyways everything seens to be on check with what is in there now. ones the life cycle of the iche is over i have to see what type of fish i might want to put in there