Some discussion of research, lack of:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-10/sp/feature/
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...2004/mini4.htm
I think there is a lack of conclusive evidence, but it's become a good luck charm of sorts. I used it on occasion if I noticed anything ich-like on my tang, and would find that the symptoms would disappear, but it's hard to say if it was ever ich, or if it was really the garlic that did it, etc.
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-Quinn
Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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