Garlic treatment for white spot

[DEA]

hey
do you guys realise seachem is making a garlic additive? called garlicguard

[eprouve]

Yeah. Heard from Ben (Petmart) that its the cheaper of the two brands... Seachem is $13 while the other one is $23 or something. I wonder if its worth the money in exchange for convenience.

By the way, I followed someone's advice to use Sera Costapur for white spot treatment. Very effective! All white spots dissappeared in 5 days flat. Hope it continues...

[Allen_1971]

I'm not sure any of you read this before, but its an interesting read on using garlic to treat marine white spot (cryptocaryon irritans) which incidentally is different from freshwater white spot (Ichthyophthinus multifilis)...

click here

This of course brings us back to the question... has anyone used garlic successfully on Freshwater whitespot?

[Vican]

There's a thread in arofanatics about this guy's aro with no appetite. He put some commercial garlic solution for aquarium into the tank and his aro got its appetite back in 5 minutes.

But this is one solitary case, not too sure if it always works

[Allen_1971]

probably didn't like the bland food

[tawauboy]

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This of course brings us back to the question... has anyone used garlic successfully on Freshwater whitespot?
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check the last post of 1st page of this thread.
Clothahump used garlic treatment for some diseases, in freshwater.

[Vican]

Someone mentioned that garlic is effective on gram negative bacteria. Does this mean that it will knock out blue-green algae if dosed into the tank???!!!

There's another brand sold in the US that is applied into the tank instead of food

[Allen_1971]

Interesting thought! Anyone with BGA care to give it a shot?

[Blue Whale]

Ooo..stumble interesting old threads, make it alive! I use garlics to keep my chinese flute dry and away from insects. Heard people use it for stomache but never thought that is has so many usable properties for this.

gonna try extracting the juice and inject into the water to see whats the effect like. Got a 2 ft one under treatment anyway.

[bwilly]

Some of my marine fishes got white spots.
Seem like this garlic works wonder.

I now wonder I have to go market n buy garlic or
they got sell powder form?
Should I visit GNC to get those caplets one, open
it n mix with my fish food. hehe..