Lee I would love to read those studies and learn more about it. I have been fortunate to not have noticed any of my fishies with ich or velvet in the last couple of years but have had it in the past and have done quite a bit of casual reading just to educate myself.
It just seems that a LOT when someone asks for help with ich the advise they get is to feed garlic and get cleaner shrimp. I know that the jury is still out on whether garlic helps anything or if it is even good or healthy to feed to your creatures but I do use myself as they seem to like it. Hell the jury is still out on whether it does anything for humans.
I guess it is up to each of us to educate ourselves as much as we can on the care of our critters but it seems that the garlic/cleaner shrimp is repeated so often that people beleive that it is going to cure their fish of ich and rid it from their system.
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