I have heard that garlic can improve the fishes immunity system in case of breakdown of illness..but will it work if i just feed them fresh garlic ?? do any of you do that ???

garlic is fine for goldfish i usually dry roast mine first as i like it too sink

well ther ya go, i said i learn something new everyday on here, didnt no ya can feed fish garlic, i wonder if it makes them fart, i can c it now little bubbles rising to the top.

I buy frozen cubes of garlic and add it to my gel food and bottom feeder cookies. All the fish go nuts for it.

my fishies love garlic!

coool .. i only got fresh ones ...i guess i gotta cut it up and feed as a snack

what other benificial is there for the goldfishes ???

if you've got fresh, you can always just crush the clove and get some of the garlic juice onto a small piece of bread, fresh is best, the stuff that's been preserved/cooked loses some of its goodness.

oranges are good, lots of vit C is good for goldies too. sprouted alfalpha is nutrient dense too.

oh we can feed bread to goldfish too ???? i just microwaved the garlic and cut into bite size ... but its a bit hard for them to eat .... how should we serve it to them to eat ???

on a plate with a knife and fork lol. na im joking.

I read somewhere that garlic is good to kill parasites so I fed some minced garlic from a jar to my tropicals. Most of them ate it but it left a terrible smell in the tank!! Couldn't wait to get it cleaned out--phew. Now I just feed Jungle Anti-parasite food with prazi if needed.

I would bet the problem was caused by the oil (in which minced garlic is usually packed) leaching into and remaining in the water.
I suspect there would be much less of that if the garlic was freshly cut up on some paper toweling to absorb whatever fluid was released by the cutting process.

Oliver

There is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that garlic has immuno-booster properties. I have dosed my fish by crushing a clove into a smal amount of tank water and soaking the pellets in it. I use just enough that the food will completely absorb the fluid.

I've done that with medi gold when one of my goldies was sick and wouldn't eat, she gobbled it right up after the garlic soak.

I just cut it up into small pieces and feed it to them, they love it!

so you dont have to cook it up? i gonna go try it out right now hope they like it

now i have something new to throw into their diet LOL

that's the way I get garlic into goldies, crush the clove, and get all of the juice and some mashed garlic onto a small piece of bread, my goldies eat their garlic that way!

i found a site that's a bit about garlic and fish
they said garlic is rumored to cure ich, dont know if that's true or not

http://www.geocities.com/shtinkythefish/diseases/garlic.htm

thanks An, that was a great site. so crushing the garlic is the best thing to do... It's just a fluke (no pun intended) that that's the way I feed my garlic. It's good to know that I was gaining the maximum benefit of garlic all this time.

i couldnt help me self i had to try the goldies on garlic. and whoo hoo they loved it, so a bit later on i tried the carrott and the loved that to. im so glad my hubby(well he told me a few sites to look at but kokos was the best).found u guys hooray hooray

so we shouldn't cook it ... i find even if i grind it .. they spit out the harder part of the garlic and its so fine its hard to clean ... but if we soften it up will it loose its nutrients??? or can i just squeez the juice in the tank ?
i was thinking bread is a good idea but .. i heard people said not to feed bread to goldfish !

I left a reply in your other thread, but I'll reiterate it here on the off chance that someone else reads this thread without any follow up... you shouldn't feed your goldies LOTS of bread, when I meant to feed your fish bread, i just meant a tiny little bit to use as a vessel to get the nutrients and goodies of the garlic into your fish, I would definitely suggest that one avoid feeding plain bread on a regular basis, goldfish have difficulty digestion lots of carbos and bread is not particularly nutrient dense, so kind of pointless feeding it on its own. hope this clears things up..

Wow thats soo interesting I never knew that.

garlic is very good for goldfish just like you and i