Garlic

[tebstan]

I don't know if it's the same (do fish have the same kind of blood? can fish become anemic?) but in some animals extensive garlic supplementation has been linked to some kind of bad effect on the blood cells due to a compound in the garlic called N-propyl disulfide/allicin that can cause anemia.
I found that out when I looked into feeding garlic to the horses
http://www.equi-therapy.net/equi-the...c-horses.shtml

The word anemia wouldn't come to mind when I was typing, but that's exactly what I was thinking of.

Not sure if the myth about garlic for fish is from our tendency as humans to think everything else is just like us. I'm the worst at it, I know, I anthropomorphize everything.

Dogs are given garlic and yeast as a way to treat and prevent flea infestations. Studies have shown this isn't always real effective, it basically just makes their blood taste bad to the pest. To give a dog an amount of garlic to be effective in killing fleas, would also be dangerous to the dog. And, to cats, it can be fatally toxic to feed any garlic or anything in the onion family.

I think its safe to assume garlic isn't toxic to fish... but does it really help prevent parasitic infections? Its suspected to boost immune systems, even I take it when I'm getting sick. But I don't want to sweat garlic smell so I don't take it all the time, lol. So should I feed it all the time, or just when it looks like something is suspicious?

I hear often that the best cure/preventative for ich is good nutrition. So if garlic stimulates the appetite, is it really the garlic that's helping, or the eating that the garlic causes?