Reef - Ich - Organicure - Fallow Tank - Aaaaargh ! ? ! ? ! ?

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Originally Posted by marie

Beta glucans are an immune booster that can be bought at health food stores. The beta glucans that are made from the cell walls of brewers and bakers yeast are the best but you can get them made from some cereal grains like oats.

Unless your prepared to crush your own garlic and feed immediately the health benefits are limited. I would suspect most of your fish would of recovered from ich even if you hadn't fed garlic

Thanks for the info.
On a few occasions the tank had a fairly mild ich infection and your comment that they would have recovered anyway is possible.
But, I have had very serious ich infections that in the past, without intervention killed the fish.
By using garlic extract (garlic extreme.) the ich went away after a few weeks
I would like to see a scientific test done with ich and garlic. I would do it myself but would properly be accused of bias. Until than each to their own I guess. Oats versus garlic, ha ha