The old garlic debate

[michika]

I've always had really great results from garlic, usually I just buy organic garlic extract from the healthfood store. I have crushed my own for the juice, but if you don't use the juice immediatly it will go bad very quickly.

For application I usually put a frozen mysis cube in a small egg tray, drop on a few droplets of garlic, leave it for a few minutes, then come back and add warm water to fully defrost the mysis. I also then soak my nori and any pellet foods I will be feeding in the garlic water.

Garlic I find is helpful preventing ick, and once you have ick it seems to take a couple days off the time it clears up.

As for our skimmer, its a DIY beast, but it doesn't seem to be affected by the mysis oils. Possibly because the amount fed isn't enough to compromise the water entering or exiting the skimmer.