Salian
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On-line experiment...If you want to join in please post your thoughts and findings here. Be prepaired to be amazed at how well this works.
The email below has been copied from 'Tropical Fish Emergencies' and is here to put this new topic into context.........
Greetings all... Kept fish for 25 years.. only just discovered this site. Great to be on board at last.
Shame about the tank. Lets try to improve fish health whilst you work out what caused the change to the water quality.
Have you fed them anything different. Or possibly live food and plant vegitation followed by dry food with higher protein content than usual?
This might sound wierd... but it will help your fish:
1. Stop feeding for 48hours min.
2. Soak some low-protein dry food in garlic oil. Either crush a clove and use the oil... or you can buy bottled garlic oil specifically for aqurium fish at very specialist shops.
3. Remove carbon and feed the hungry blighters with garlic soaked food.
As well as getting rid of vampires... the garlic passes through fish gut and tissue/scales killing a number of parasites and infections. The fish will become more active and breighter in colour. It's the equivalent of Fish 'colonic irregation' and clears fish constipation.
I do this 3-4 times per year as preventitive .... the fish love it... watch out for unwanted spawning activity afterwards though.
Only negative side affect is a garlic-ponging tank for 2-3 days afterwards... but carbon helps with that too.
As for the snails ... blanch a lettuice leaf in boiling water for 2 secs. Put in tank late at night and leave over night near where snails live. Get up early before dawn and pull leaf out of tank... nails will be sat on the leaf! Repeat as required.
Yours Aye
Salian
Second email on subject......
I've never heard that before salian....I might try it...what low-protein food do you use for this?...
Third...
might give that a go too
you say to take the caron out before feeding
when should it go back in?
thanks
tanks
Reply: Any low-protein content dry food... nothing too rich. No dried live food.
Algae waffers work well... but take alot of soaking.
Catfish pellets also work well.
I tend to crush a fresh clove onto a glass surface and then mash basic flake food into the garlic oil using the back of a tea spoon. I drop small 'clods' of garlic soaked food into the tank.
Fish will find it streight away, however more effective if you starve them a little first. My fish only get fed 3 times per week, the rest of the time they are forced to eat vitamins by eating the plants. If you do not have live plants, try adding a very thin slice of cucumber and wedge it at fish-swiming height if you can. If you have alot of catfish/corys -try a thin slice of potatoe. (the potatoe takes the garlic well too!)
Let me know what you think once you have had a go. Maybe we should start a new post on the Garlic thing and invite all to write in with their observations! Could be fun. Will do it now!
Yours Aye
Salian
The email below has been copied from 'Tropical Fish Emergencies' and is here to put this new topic into context.........
Greetings all... Kept fish for 25 years.. only just discovered this site. Great to be on board at last.
Shame about the tank. Lets try to improve fish health whilst you work out what caused the change to the water quality.
Have you fed them anything different. Or possibly live food and plant vegitation followed by dry food with higher protein content than usual?
This might sound wierd... but it will help your fish:
1. Stop feeding for 48hours min.
2. Soak some low-protein dry food in garlic oil. Either crush a clove and use the oil... or you can buy bottled garlic oil specifically for aqurium fish at very specialist shops.
3. Remove carbon and feed the hungry blighters with garlic soaked food.
As well as getting rid of vampires... the garlic passes through fish gut and tissue/scales killing a number of parasites and infections. The fish will become more active and breighter in colour. It's the equivalent of Fish 'colonic irregation' and clears fish constipation.
I do this 3-4 times per year as preventitive .... the fish love it... watch out for unwanted spawning activity afterwards though.
Only negative side affect is a garlic-ponging tank for 2-3 days afterwards... but carbon helps with that too.
As for the snails ... blanch a lettuice leaf in boiling water for 2 secs. Put in tank late at night and leave over night near where snails live. Get up early before dawn and pull leaf out of tank... nails will be sat on the leaf! Repeat as required.
Yours Aye
Salian
Second email on subject......
I've never heard that before salian....I might try it...what low-protein food do you use for this?...
Third...
might give that a go too
you say to take the caron out before feeding
when should it go back in?
thanks
tanks
Reply: Any low-protein content dry food... nothing too rich. No dried live food.
Algae waffers work well... but take alot of soaking.
Catfish pellets also work well.
I tend to crush a fresh clove onto a glass surface and then mash basic flake food into the garlic oil using the back of a tea spoon. I drop small 'clods' of garlic soaked food into the tank.
Fish will find it streight away, however more effective if you starve them a little first. My fish only get fed 3 times per week, the rest of the time they are forced to eat vitamins by eating the plants. If you do not have live plants, try adding a very thin slice of cucumber and wedge it at fish-swiming height if you can. If you have alot of catfish/corys -try a thin slice of potatoe. (the potatoe takes the garlic well too!)
Let me know what you think once you have had a go. Maybe we should start a new post on the Garlic thing and invite all to write in with their observations! Could be fun. Will do it now!
Yours Aye
Salian
I also use a frozen food that is very,very garlic-y. I think garlic works (for humans too!)
