Garlic, serious discussion

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

To me, it seemed that the fish were actually detered by the ordor of garlic.

I would tend to agree with this statement. Fish new to very small amounts of garlic in their food in my tanks don't usually eat the food very readily at first. It has usually taken a day or two for them to eat it without spitting it back out. Once they get the hang of eating garlic soaked food, though, they are pretty gung ho about it thereafter.