using garlic

I know people use it in foods that they make and freeze.

Here is my take (and if you missed the Aug meeting - you missed my whole spiel) if feeding garlic make you feel better, then do it.  It likely not doing anything to help your fish, but its also not likley hurting anything either.

I have also used fresh pressed garlic.

There is no need to do a science test on it. I don't know why Jake, who has been in this hobby twice as long as I have, has not seen the positive results of dosing Garlic, maybe because he didn't use the Garlic Oil formulation that worked best in his tank, but Garlic Oil does make a big difference. Every tank is different and each Garlic Oil seems to work well in one tank or another. I've had less good results from the $20 garlic made by aquarium additives manufacturers than with the cheap stinky stuff found at the grocery store for $5. 

My brother had trouble with smashed garlic cloves added to his frozen food. So don't count on your home grown garlic to do the job. Be ready to switch to a processed Garlic Oil if the fresh garlic doesn't clear up Ich in a day or two. Connie does a great job at keeping her aquariums so maybe the difference was that she presses the clove whereas my brother used the entire mashed substance.

As was mentioned by Santiago/SGH360, the full instructions are found in the Tips and How To's section of the big thread linked below. Look for "Secrets of adding new fish and the Miracle of Garlic Oil."

Have fun.


Edited by Mark Peterson - September 02 2010 at 10:38am