Soaking food in Garlic?

[arandacole]

Can someone explain this to me a bit?
I feed either flake ( a mixture of formula 1 and 2) or frozen brine shrimp.
In my mind.. soaking food would require that the food be big enough to soak (in my mind I'm thinking marinate the food - silly, I know)
How do you soak food that is tiny?
And is there a garlic solution you are soaking it in?
Thank you.
Love,
A

 

[mrchinky71]

Originally Posted by Arandacole
Can someone explain this to me a bit?
I feed either flake ( a mixture of formula 1 and 2) or frozen brine shrimp.
In my mind.. soaking food would require that the food be big enough to soak (in my mind I'm thinking marinate the food - silly, I know)
How do you soak food that is tiny?
And is there a garlic solution you are soaking it in?
Thank you.
Love,
A

yeah you can buy Kent Marine's Garlic Xtreme. Very stinky stuff xD I just use a small lil bowl put a lil of tank water in it put the food in there and put 2 drops of the Garlic Xtreme in and leave it for about 5 minutes and then feed.

 

[rs1831]

there's a very good post by Beth in the disease and treatment forum.

 

[mikeyjer]

I'm just glad more and more people are leaning towards soaking food with garlic. It wasn't like this when I first started in this forum. I try telling some folks about the garlic method and they just turn their nose on me. I use it and it works for me...Good Luck!! :happyfish

 

[eye.guy]

that is already soaked in garlic. Just wondering sounds like a business opportunity to me.

 

[mrdc]

They do make pellets that have garlic in it but I am not sure of the potency.

 

[imurnamine]

This may sound dumb, but why do would you have to soak their food in garlic? Is it if they're not eating well?

 

[ryanhayes9]

it entices them to eat more and boost there immune sysytem

 

[imurnamine]

Ohh... Then I really don't need to do that, my fish eat their weight in food! ^_^

 

[mrdc]

Originally Posted by ImUrNamine
Ohh... Then I really don't need to do that, my fish eat their weight in food! ^_^

Yeah but don't forget the benefit of boosting the immune system.

 

[imurnamine]

Ohh, so the GARLIC boosts the immune system. I thought just eating more of the food did. I'll have to try that.

 

[beth]

https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/127007/faqs-fish-diseases-treatments-quarantine-health-info#post_1509974

 

[dut]

McCormacks Garlic Juice comes in a brown bottle and you can buy it at food lion. Works great. Also, some of the frozen foods now have garlic in them.

 

[hardcrab67]

I use frozen cubes of Formula 2, has 2% garlic and Vit C, fed twice a week.

 

[hardcrab67]

Originally Posted by Beth
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/127007/faqs-fish-diseases-treatments-quarantine-health-info#post_1509974
Great post, believe I will do that w/ the next clam and seaweed rolls I make.

 

[stanlalee]

Food doesn't have to be large to soak in garlic. Every morning I take formula one and two pellets and crush them to almost a powder with the top of a chapstick tube. I do the same with tetra marine pellets. then grind up a tiny pinch of tetra marine flakes with my fingers. all in a 30cc plastic medicine cup. I then stred a little bit of frozen mysis and reef plankton off a cube with a knife and put that in the medicine cup as well. I add about 5cc of tank water and cut a small piece of garlic off a fresh clove(or not so fresh since one clove last weeks). I put the small piece of garlic in the medicine cup, water and food, cut litttle slits in it with the knife and squeeze down on it a little with the knife. I let it soak about 5-10 minutes, remove the garlic from the cup then I suck half of it up with a syringe (minus the needle) and feed it to the fish/corals. I put the other half in the fridge and feed that in the evening.
I wasn't a believer in garlic, even scoffed at it not too long ago in a post about ich but I started doing it for kicks since I have a small tang temperarily in a tank too small. I'll be darned if his health doesn't seem greatly improved.