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Old 09-16-2012, 11:41 AM
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Garlic, fresh garlic, lots of garlic, put fresh garlic in a blender and puree it, strain out the juice and add it directly to the tank, also soak their food with it. It will boost the fishes immune system and keep them eating.
Make the tank smell like garlic.
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Old 09-16-2012, 01:24 PM
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Your six line should be fine in your aquarium. Nano Reef has stocking guidelines and, while they may be considered controversial by non-nano reefers, they are what I follow for my tanks (I consider my 40B a nano), though I've got one fish in there that would get me lynched by them.

http://www.nano-reef.com/fish/?fish=3

Understand that when they indicate that a six line can be housed in a 10 gallon, it is the only fish in there. I think they recommend four fish at the maximum for a 20 gallon.

Garlic does seem to be a popular display system treatment, and despite the lack of scientific evidence that it works, there is a huge amount of anecdotal evidence that it does.
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Old 09-16-2012, 03:13 PM
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I was a non-believer then I got ich in my display(only time I introduced a fish without quarantine), was told to use garlic, was skepticle but tried it anyway and it WORKED, had zero losses and ich never returned.
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I was a non-believer then I got ich in my display(only time I introduced a fish without quarantine), was told to use garlic, was skepticle but tried it anyway and it WORKED, had zero losses and ich never returned.
This is what I was looking for: someone with ich in the tank but doesn't get it :P

So what should I do is make garlic paste and put it directly into the tank? Like the paste itself? And what about water change?
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Old 09-16-2012, 06:48 PM
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I whipped up a few cloves of fresh garlic and sqeezed it thru a coffee filter to axtract the juice, added about a tsp of it to the tank, soak the food in it when feeding, did that every day for a few days then just soak the food.
I now add a couple drops of kent garlic extreme to the food every day.

OH! and time is of the essence, git r done
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Great! Thanks
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Old 09-16-2012, 09:14 PM
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Mixed mysis shrimp with garlic paste and the fishes went nuts (well my fishes always get nuts with whatever they can eat :P). Wrasse actually started munching on the garlic particles itself!!!!! Even stole the piece of meat that was given to the torch. Poor torch

Hope the garlic treatment will work I love my wrasse!
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Your six line should be fine in your aquarium. Nano Reef has stocking guidelines and, while they may be considered controversial by non-nano reefers, they are what I follow for my tanks (I consider my 40B a nano), though I've got one fish in there that would get me lynched by them.

http://www.nano-reef.com/fish/?fish=3

Understand that when they indicate that a six line can be housed in a 10 gallon, it is the only fish in there. I think they recommend four fish at the maximum for a 20 gallon.

Garlic does seem to be a popular display system treatment, and despite the lack of scientific evidence that it works, there is a huge amount of anecdotal evidence that it does.
Thanks Shelly for supporting my nano You have always been very supportive and inspirational
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