does garlic harm fish or coral....

[Smarkalan83]

I have a blue hippo tang that is about 6 inches and just the other day she started to get ich...I soaked the fish food In garlic and the ich seems to be going away with the copper free medicine I dosed also....my concern is now 1 day after I fed more garlic my denial corals which have been spreading and doing very good are now looking like they are melting...they are now a darker blue color ...are they dying and also I see my copperband butterfly is dead also...which my serpent star is eating all that's left are bones.....is this because of the garlic or is it a coincidence....thanks for the help

 

[mr_X]

it's not because of garlic. what size tank is this? how long have you had the copperbanded butterfly? did you see it eat?

 

[Smarkalan83]

I would see him swim around the food and I would see him pick at food landing on the rocks but definately didn't go crazy like my other fish....do you think the xenia is melting from the kick-ich I used....I just don't know why it happened all ay same time

 

[Smarkalan83]

Sorry tank is 65 gal....been up for over a year now

 

[Smarkalan83]

Had copperband for about month or 2

 

[mr_X]

the copper banded most likely starved to death. it takes a month or two.
it's super hard to get them to eat prepared foods.
i don't know for sure if that chemical you used killed off your coral. i would be doing large water changes to remove it.
ich usually doesn't surface after the fish have been in the tank for a while unless something stressed them. what are your parameters?

 

[melosu58]

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: A Quarantine Tank for Everything by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com


Marine Ich/Cryptocaryon irritans - A Discussion of this Parasite and the Treatment Options Available, Part I by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com

Marine Ich/Cryptocaryon irritans - A Discussion of this Parasite and the Treatment Options Available, Part II by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com

and as far as garlic

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/sp/index.php