Garlic for ick????

[rvalen]

hmmm well i read garlic helps,,, my cowfish has a 4 specks of ick i put him in another tank and lowerd the salinity i didnt feel very good doing that so i put him back in the main tank (he was not stressed at all) i read a cple of posts about garlic and ick so i had fresh minced garlic in fridge droped it in the tank no one ate it but my lil cowfish im very surprised he really liked it i fed him a lil so lets see what happens.. has anyone ever did this?? does it work???
my other fish eat the seaweed that has garlic

[TheGreatAukSociety]

Cowfish and Boxfish are extrememly sensitive to ick. They eat alot of plant matter, so it's not suprising it's eating the garlic. It's not a fish that does well in the kind of tank where all sorts of other fish are getting thrown in. it will catch every disease they have.

My first boxfish, http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+24+77&pcatid=77
lived about a week in a QT tank by itself. It looked healthy, was eating, then came down with massive ick when I was gone for 1 day. Never recovered.

Second boxfish same species, I fed it 3 times per day and it was just slowly losing weight. it was very friendly and personable, but just never could keep weight on.

If I were to try a 3rd, I would probably just treat it prophalactically.

Does Garlic Work?
http://www.reefs.org/library/article/h_cortes-jorge.html

So now that you're the owner of a boxfish, you'll need to QT everything that goes in that tank.

[rvalen]

what do u mean by prophalactically. i notived my yellow eye tang has spots too,, this just happend within 20min... i wanna run to walmart and grab some of that quick cure stuff

[TheGreatAukSociety]

it's treating a fish for ick before it has ick.

[rvalen]

what do u recommend i do now??? should i take 20g out and replace it with plain warm water no salt to lower salinity and raise temp,, or just get them drops from walmart???

[pat tran]

In my opinion, i would go to the petco near walmart and get some garlic xtreme. This stuff got my sailfin, hippo, yellow, and naso tang to eat and took away the ick that the hippo had. Works every time