Ich??

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Scavenger

Apparently, after ingesting the garlic, the fish excretes it from it's skin , this is unappealing to the ich and it falls off. Also new ich will not attach to the unappealing skin. If the ich doesn't find a suitable host it dies. After time if all goes well all the ich in the tank dies.

I have used garlic to keep the ich from reattaching to the fish, but I used MEGA doses of it soaked overnight on their favourite food to do so.

Garlic will not make the ich spots go drop off the fish though. Not even copper will do that. The ich drops off the fish naturally at a certain stage in its life cycle. Then there will be a period of a week or two or three where there are not ich spots on the fish. That does NOT mean the ich is gone. It only means that the ich is in a different stage of its life and is getting ready to reinfect the fish.

During the time there are no ich spots on the fish, continue to feed food soaked in MEGA doses of garlic so the fish are good and stinky and not at all palatable for the soon to attach ich. I used Garlic Xtreme and lots of it, baby

Use garlic for 6 weeks to be sure the ich has all died and not there to reinfect the fish.