Grocery store foods?

[naesco]

The key is not to buy watered down product like garlic juice. You can buy garlic extract from health food stores. The idea is to put as much garlic into the fish as possible.
I started using Garlic Extreme which works but the other marine garlic products are watered down.

[fkshiu]

The absolute best food I've found in the grocery (aside from nori, of course) is smelt roe or masago, which can be found a any Asian grocer like T&T. It's the same stuff in sushi and everyting in the tank with a mouth goes nuts for it. It's dirt cheap too if you freeze it. For snootier fish there is tobiko (flying fish roe) which is a little more expensive and a wee bit bigger. I suspect that if you've got some big fish, salmon roe (ikura) would be a big hit with them.

[Patrice]

What are the advantages of using garlic? Is it worth the effort?

[fishoholic]

I used to use Garlic Extreme but I switched to Garlic Power by Brightwell Aquatics which is a more concentrated garlic additive. FYI you can smell this stuff a mile away, so trust me it's concentrated. One of the benefits of using garlic is to enhance/boost a fish's natural immunity. It also helps with getting picky fish to eat.

[banditpowdercoat]

Well, We got some Minced garlic in the fridge. And I decided to smear a little on a piece of Nori. Once placed in the tank, All the fishes went nuts. The only one eating it was the Yellow tang, but the Garlic sure enticed the other fishes too