Garlic or ginger ..... experiences?

[Len]

I've never tried either to tell you the truth. My fish will come down with ich on occasion, but they always recover by themselves within a week.

What do you guys tried to use to battle ich? Did it work?

I know why Garlic is supposed to work (allicin), but have no idea what it is about Ginger that people claim works. NKT uses ginger and says it's worked each and every time, but anyone here have an idea why?

 

[fungia]

i use garlic and it seems to work after a few days. i soak my food in garlic extract that i buy at my local food mart for about 20 minutes and feed. the ich goes away after a few days. nothing bad has happened from using it so i think it is reef safe.

 

[ZigZagZombie]

I also use garlic soaked food. The Kyolic liquid is what i use. Fish have not had ich in quite some time now. When they did, this stuff did take it away in a few days. It could of been the garlic, but who knows. Does nothing to the tank either..

 

[Osama]

I use garlic only if spots I notice on fish remain on & start spreading Usually they disappear on their own or thanks to two cleaner shrimp... Otherwise garlic extrac works for me

 

[fishfarmer]

When I put a "clean" regal tang in my 120, I assumed it was going to get ich. A few days later it had ich. I fed garlic/vitamin soaked nori from day one for as long as it had ich, which was a couple of weeks. It finally cleared up. Not sure if the fish was healthy enough to fight off the ich or it was the garlic.

 

[Ryan7]

GARLIC 8)

 

[Anonymous]

'sigh' Lets not let the ginger thing take on a life of it's own. :lol:
I'm tempted to dump some tobasco sauce in my reef if I ever see a white spot. That way when it clears up, I can put a post on here about a new miracle ich cure! 8O Or maybe some cinnamon, or rosemary. Heck, I know - peach Snapple!!! Yeah, that it!!
Anyway, I'll never get that chance. Why you ask? Oh come on, I know your asking...
BECAUSE I QUARANTINE!!!!


Cheers
Jim

 

[Anonymous]

I dont use a q-tank and I have never had a problem with ich either so pfft

 

[Expos Forever]

I find it ridiculous/scary that one post at RC with someone reporting something that clearly seems anecdotal, has now inspired some people to recommend ginger as a tried and true remedy to ich. IMO Len hit it on the head when he said a healthy (and eating) fish will usually recover on it's own. Not saying that ginger is useless , just saying that it should be subjected to the scientific method before people start recommending that newbies start dumping ginger or antyhing else in their tanks. IMO it's like saying I played Mozart 24 hours a day and the ich went away. Therefore playing Mozart cures ich. :roll:

I have personally observed that, with my fish, garlic does SEEM to stimulate apettite. The info (or lack of) on ginger has left me thoroughly un-convinced.

 

[Anonymous]

MegaDeTH,
Sorry, and nothing personal, but that is a very ignorant post. It's like saying, "l don't wear a seatbelt, and I'm still alive - look how smart I am!"
:roll:

Regards
Jim

 

[fish1]

I've used garlic in the past when I had an outbreak of ich after feeding `my tank live brine about 2 years ago. At the time all fish HAD been quarantined.
I used the kyolic garlic , the fish loved it soaked in freeze dried blood worms. I have not had any ich problems since then, got a healthy system now and I don't feed live brine anymore.

 

[CAT]

I bought a royal gramma that I 'thought' was clear and it got ick after a couple of days. None of the other fish were affected. Tried the garlic for almost a month with no change. Finally tore apart the tank, caught the fish and treated it with Seachem's Paraguard (non-copper med) in a q-tank and he was clear within 4 days. He's back in the tank now. Only time will tell if he gets it back.

Garlic didn't work for the gramma, but then again none of the other fish (banggai, 3 chromis, and firefish) ever got even one spot.

IMO, some fish are prone to it, some fish are resistent, I'm not convinced garlic made any difference other than to stink up my tank :wink:
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[fish1]

CAT, what kind of garlic did you use? Kyolic doesn't stink up the tank . ?


Look at me , 4 years and just a hand full of posts Is it a record ? Oldest member with fewest posts

 

[Anonymous]

i just started feeding fresh garlic cloves to our marine section

not because i think that it's proven to fight off ich

but rather because i know it helps with many issues in many different types of animals, and issues they have-from dogs and fleas, to people and blood health/cholesterol issues, and immune system response boostering, and anti bacterial/protozoal/fungal properties of allacin

what really surprised me was how quickly fish attack and eat it, and the species that do-we have a miniatus grouper that loves the stuff, and our flame angels, currently around 30 individuals, won't leave it alone

i doubt it hurts, and my gut feeling is that it just adds to a healthy and varied diet-and any anti 'bad bug' properties it may have are just another side benefit

it also seems to act as a very powerful taste attractant, from my observations on the 100 or so s/w tanks we have in the store

next week i'm also gonna try it out on the f/w systems

 

[CAT]

Fish, I used fresh pressed garlic and soaked the food in it.

 

[Osama]

I use Garlic extract liquid Kyrolic from a health food store and worked well for my 180G reef tank.

 

[Anonymous]

Fish,
YOU CANNOT give your fish ich by feedling live brine. Mkay? The reasons for this are A. the water brine lives in is too salty for any parasites to survive, and B. There are no fish in the ponds where the brine is raised! No fish, no fish parasites. These shrimp are raised in ponds near where I live, believe me, there is no risk of ich infenstation from it.


Regards
Jim

 

[Anonymous]

Ginger???

 

[Anonymous]

Yes, ginger. On RC someone posted about how his fish had ich for a couple of days and he fed them ginger and the ich went away. He was prety clear that he had no idea if the ginger did anything, but other people went nuts over it. Like a scary anecdotal wildfire.


I have tried garlic, but am not convinced at all. Mostly the fish surrive with or without it, and, in the past, I have had fish die with and without it.

 

[Anonymous]

'sigh' Lets not let the ginger thing take on a life of it's own.
I'm tempted to dump some tobasco sauce in my reef if I ever see a white spot. That way when it clears up, I can put a post on here about a new miracle ich cure! Or maybe some cinnamon, or rosemary. Heck, I know - peach Snapple!!! Yeah, that it!!
Anyway, I'll never get that chance. Why you ask? Oh come on, I know your asking...
BECAUSE I QUARANTINE!!!!

MegaDeTH,
Sorry, and nothing personal, but that is a very ignorant post. It's like saying, "l don't wear a seatbelt, and I'm still alive - look how smart I am!"

Fish,
YOU CANNOT give your fish ich by feedling live brine. Mkay? The reasons for this are A. the water brine lives in is too salty for any parasites to survive, and B. There are no fish in the ponds where the brine is raised! No fish, no fish parasites. These shrimp are raised in ponds near where I live, believe me, there is no risk of ich infenstation from it.

:roll:

there's something to be said for those so full of sarcastic criticisms.