Okay so I was at a LIAS meeting the other night, and I met with the Kent Marine rep they had speaking there. He made mention of using garlic extract in reef tanks to help get rid of ich and other marine disease because garlic was safe for inverts where other chemical based medications are not.
Has anybody ever heard of this? Kent Marine is supposedly comming out with a garlic extract product this summer, but I was wondering...
The Kent Marine rep said to soak the food in the garlic extract and feed it to the fish that way. I wish it was feasible for me to do that, but that would be an awful lot of food, and an awful lot of time, that I just don't have in retail to do. So..I was thinking. Does anybody think that filling say, a nylon knee-high, with a little bit of diced or minced garlic, and allowing that to soak in the sump have the same effect?
Not that I'm worried about inverts, I can't have inverts in my systems because of copper contamination from previous medicial applications. But I have been wracking my brains for copper alternitives, and if garlic would work just as well in a fish-only system...dude, that would soo rock.
~~Colesea
Has anybody ever heard of this? Kent Marine is supposedly comming out with a garlic extract product this summer, but I was wondering...
The Kent Marine rep said to soak the food in the garlic extract and feed it to the fish that way. I wish it was feasible for me to do that, but that would be an awful lot of food, and an awful lot of time, that I just don't have in retail to do. So..I was thinking. Does anybody think that filling say, a nylon knee-high, with a little bit of diced or minced garlic, and allowing that to soak in the sump have the same effect?
Not that I'm worried about inverts, I can't have inverts in my systems because of copper contamination from previous medicial applications. But I have been wracking my brains for copper alternitives, and if garlic would work just as well in a fish-only system...dude, that would soo rock.
~~Colesea