GARLIC POLL: Your opinions needed!!

[tcwayne]

In my experience, again in my experience. I haven't been doing this for very long but I got ick in my 90 I think around april or may. It was a new tank and I had recently moved everything from my 46. Well I lost some fish and it may have been from my novice skills of upgrading to a bigger tank. Determined to not lose anymore fish, I decided to put the 46 together and QT the fish that I had and that is where they stayed for two months while the 90 stood fallow. No sign of ick anywhere so I put everything back in the 90 and at the time I had only 4 fish no coral. All signs had been good for a few months and I felt it was time to replace a fish that my wife truly loved that we lost, a blue hippo tang. I found a fat one from a guy who was doing a tank teardown and she was very happy and healthy. I got the fish in my tank, after QT in my little 10gal. she seemed fine, eating great and within a couple of days BOOM just like that there is spots on the hippo. I couldn't believe it, so I put ol hippo back in QT with treatment. Got her all better and no signs of ick, not on her in the QT or on anyone in the 90. So I put her back in and of course in a couple of days she had spots. C'MON MAN! Obviously I needed a second opinion of sorts. You guessed it, GARLIC! Everyone in the tank goes after that stuff like they haven't eaten in a month. I see an occasional spot here and there but it immediately goes away and all I do is smash garlic in some seaweed and what a relief!

[impur]

I had ich spring up in my tank about 6 months ago. I have 5 fish in my 75gal and 3 of them were showing signs of ich. I started using my garlic press and smashing up a half clove of garlic each night i fed. I would mash up the garlic and then put it in a small cup with the thawed frozen foods i use. I tried to get all the juice from the garlic and as much of the actual clove. I'd stir this and let it sit for about 5 min then feed, tossing in the garlic as well. I did this for about 2 months. The ich never got worse and eventually went away. It has not come back to this point.

I can't say for certain if it was the garlic, or just me paying closer attention to detail and taking better care of the tank.

I'd like to see something proven regarding garlic, thats for sure.