The old garlic debate

[Chin_Lee]

Originally Posted by jennytheleopardgrouper

Ok, I've heard mostly good reviews about using garlic soaked food, and some bad (It stops the skimmer from working?) I'd like to know what anyone out there thinks about it, and if it has to be in the form of oil? Could I just blend up some cloves with my mysis shrimp and re-freeze it? Thanks!

my skimmer doesn't stop skimming when i add garlic extreme directly into the tank and I have added as much as three dropper fulls in at a time.
However my skimmer does stop foaming when i feed with mysis (with or without being soaked with garlic extreme). This is due to the oil from the mysis.
In all likelihood, results will probably vary from skimmer to skimmer. Mine is a single beckett skimmer powered by an iwaki 70 at ~1650 gph.