garlic?

Keep hearing all this talk about garlic in food. or soaking in garlic? how exactly do you you do that. is it just like it sounds? what does that do?

 

Soaking food in garlic helps give fish extra vitamins and nutrients that keep them healthy. You can buy garlic extreme from most LFS, or you can just get finely minced garlic from the grocery store.

 

It is also used to stimulate their appetite. So if you have a new fish or one that is sick, stimulating its appetite can help to acclimate it and keep it strong enough to fight off disease.

 

Here you go, read here in : Garlic: What has been Studied Versus What has been Claimed by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com

 

That's great info... appreciate your post

 

how much of this "garlic" and im using to soak the food. can you soak any food in it, such as pellets?

 

I use the Garlic Xtreme. It comes with an eye dropper and I will usually put a couple of drops per frozen cube of food and let it soak in while the food thaws. When I put it on nori, I just run the dropper over it, giving it a couple of drops and let it sit for a little bit. Yes, I believe you could probably put a drop on a pellet. This stuff is extremely strong smelling.

 

I would recommend that when it comes to frozen cubes you defrost it, drain the water and then give it a few drops of the garlic. Those frozen cubes have been known to be loaded with phosphates and nitrates – I have actually read where people prefer to defrost, drain, rinse then use.

 

Ive been using garlic extreme as well, it helped cure my regal and longnose of ich. They love it very much. It is very very stong tho!

 

i bought a large bag of nori that has garlic on it from my lfs and i hate it! is it good for the fish? i dont know, but it films up on the top of the tank every time i put it in there wich makes me think all i am accomplishing is making my filtration work that much harder than it needs to,, bags half gone.cant wait to be done with it,wont do it again