Help!! Ich!!

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Ich will drop off a fish in a week whether or not you do anything to your tank. The on-the-fish stage of ich lasts only about a week.

I was really only offering my experiences in a "for what it's worth" perspective, nothing more. There was a little bit of ick on a fish, I found something that I suspected was a stressor, I thus removed that stressor and things seemed to improve. The spots did not come back. Take it for what it's worth, an idle comment from the peanut gallery.

my guess is that the garlic makes the fish reek of garlic and the ich will not attach to the stinky fish.

I suppose that's one guess... I would have guessed something along the lines of garlic being an antioxidant, perhaps some kind of immuno-booster (if there is such a thing), or perhaps even as simple as "garlic'ed food smells better" and a fish that eats "more" as opposed to eats "less" stands a better chance of getting its strength up and fighting off nasties on its own. But those are just my guesses.

But, I would guess that for a really bad ick outbreak, feeding garlic laced food is a bit optimistic, all by itself.