ocellaris_keeper
Active Member
Soaking your fish food in Garlic when crushed into a powder produces a natural antibiotic that's beneficial to your fish and will not harm you reef live stock.
Here's why:
Allicin, or Diallyl thiosulfinate, is the primary active ingredient in garlic. Allicin is naturally produced when garlic is damaged or crushed as the all around defense of the garlic plant to invading organisms. It is an effective antibiotic (kills bacteria and parasitic protozoa as well as possessing considerable anti-fungal properties) with an application of use as good as penicillin's, only not as potent.
Allicin has a great ability to penetrate living tissue (which is why it's hard to get the smell off your skin after touching it). This ability makes it extremely effective at getting to, and into, the invading parasite and making use of its antibiotic properties. Allicin has also been shown to suppress the damage inflicted by the Trophonts.
Here's why:
Allicin, or Diallyl thiosulfinate, is the primary active ingredient in garlic. Allicin is naturally produced when garlic is damaged or crushed as the all around defense of the garlic plant to invading organisms. It is an effective antibiotic (kills bacteria and parasitic protozoa as well as possessing considerable anti-fungal properties) with an application of use as good as penicillin's, only not as potent.
Allicin has a great ability to penetrate living tissue (which is why it's hard to get the smell off your skin after touching it). This ability makes it extremely effective at getting to, and into, the invading parasite and making use of its antibiotic properties. Allicin has also been shown to suppress the damage inflicted by the Trophonts.