NICE find

[sundancer]

You are a very entertaining man,Flybynight. I love your attitude! Your garlic theory(although not groundbreaking)is worth taking a close,hard look and probably someone with the funds and/or time should initiate a lenghty study on the subject. I Quarantine everything but I believe in garlic,too. Good luck with your tank.

[Flybynight]

If you think I am entertaining you should put me on your payroll. I would be here all week. =) JK... Or, maybe not. hmm.. What are you paying? Haha
You should meet me in person. I am not so good with putting my words on paper. I would have won this debate in 3 mins if we where talking in person. HAHA. Took me over 1 hour to type this out.

[kau_cinta_ku]

you win when you show me siectific proof that garlic is a cure for ich

[BangkokMatt]

Flybynight - post some pics on day 3 and you can either prove or disprove your theory.
I agree that garlic can be off putting to parasites when embedding in a fish but I don't believe it is a 'cure' for ich at an antibiotic level. All interesting though

[Rustylugnuts]

Win or lose I wanna see some pics. Nice save btw if this works on a regular basis (and the name isnt already taken) you should throw "tang whisperer" in the signature.

[Flybynight]

Ok, I will do it. Going to take a shot now... He is eathing algae like crazy but he is not eating my flake food. I just called the LFS they said to feed him pellets. So, off the the store I go.

[rustybucket145]

There are alot of nay-sayers here that will fight with you to the death saying that the only way to cure ich is to setup a quarantine tank and put you fish in it for several months, medicating and hypo-salinating....yaadayada, yada yada.... blah blah blah....

Everytime I've tried to tell anyone here about the garlic thing I got slammed by people saying that they should be quarantining...blah blah blah.... I'm glad some others have had the same success...

I've seen a 125 gal tank (a buddy of mines) in which every fish had ich... BAD! ALL of the fish were eating and otherwise healthy fish. Water quality was good..... etc. I convinced him to use the garlic (after many here had told him it was bologna) In a week all the ich was off the fish and everything was back to normal....

I've seen this same situation countless times with my own eyes (never in my own tank ), and yet people here (who have never tried it) will blast it every chance they get.

[GoingPostal]

I think the mystery coral may be a scolymia vitensis.

[jadeguppy]

What type of garlic are you using? Some say add it to the food, the thread poster said he adds some directly to the water. Just wondering incase I ever need to try the same thing.

[Crimthann]

I add chopped garlic to the fish food I make that I feed them regularity. If I do have an ich outbreak in the tank I'll also soak some nori in the kent liquid garlic stuff for them to eat.

Don't get me wrong I'm not condoning not using quarantine tanks.. Just saying that's what I do, and apparently quite a few others .

[Flybynight]

I think it is ascolymia vitensis as well. It is starting to puff up alot today. The flesh is about 1/2 of a inch thick now. The mouth is almost fully closed. I think it was starving to death at the LFS's tank. We will see.

[jadeguppy]

Will the jared chopped garlic work well or does it need to be smaller? How do you make your food? Also, what is the difference between kent garlic and other sources?

[Flybynight]

I use Garlic Guard by Seachem.

[Flybynight]

Ready for some results? This is only day 2. I have toll tomorrow to see NO ick. At this point I can not see any but I am sure they may be one spot left somewhere. Try to look real hard now to find it. The fish is doing amazing. If you look in the middle you can see how much she is eating. A very skinny fish with a FULL belly. No/very little ick. Doing good and will be 100% by tomorrow.

My cam is not the best but this is a much more clear shot than I started this post with.

[Flybynight]

O I also took shoots of the same side of the fish. The left side. If you look at the blue background you can see that I am not playing any tricks. Does garlic work? You tell me.

[Amyandlars]

Good luck nursing him back, so sad to see such a beautiful tang so skinny.

[BangkokMatt]

Well done. No visible ich. I hope the fish does well for you.

[adtravels]

good luck with that one

[McTeague]

Great deal! Good luck with the fish! How exactly is the dosing of garlic done? Is it simply a matter of soaking the food in fresh squeezed garlic juice prior to feeding? Do you rinse the garlic juice off prior to actually adding the food to the tank or just dump it in there?

[Flybynight]

The way I do it is buy Garlic Guard by Seachem. Then I add 5 ML per 50 Gallons per day for one month. For the first year I just added it every day. You can soak the fish food in it for faster results.

[Flybynight]

The tang is still doing very good. She does not like to eat flake food. So I have to go get her some pellets. The things you have to do for your fish haha.

[Rustylugnuts]

Good to hear. Next thing you know its gonna want pickles and ice cream.

[Flybynight]

HAHA funny you say that. My wife craved that when she was pregnant.

[wmfsoll2]

So how is your Tang doing now? Any new Pictures?

Bill.

[reefsponge]

Adding a cleaner shrimp may help in gettin rid of that ich, and if your naso is a picky eater brown algae is their main natural diet. That coral is an lps and not an sps, I've seen others similar, I believe it is a scolymia.