Homemade Garlic Extract???

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Im still having trouble breaking my Dat into eating pellets and krill. :swear: I cant find any garlic extract where im at so I was curious to get peoples opinions on my idea. Let me know if you think this will work...

Instead of buying some garlic extract I was thinking about simply placing a few shaven garlic cloves and placing them in my hikari pellet container in the hopes that the garlic scent and oils will "rub off" onto the pellets. My only concern is that maybe the raw unprocessed garlic might harm my fish???

Any thoughts or comments??? :tropicalf
 
I dont think it will have any harmful effect at all except that your dry fish food may turn moldy? i used to stuff bits garlic in mp before feeding it to my arowana.
 
A garlic press and several cloves of garlic will work. Also go to a health food store, they will often have garlic extract. I use garlic alot on my fish but I have not found it to cause fish to eat things they are not used to.

A good trick I use is to use live ghost shrimp. THis usally gets their attention. After your fish realize you mean food is being droped in, start feeding it dead ghost shrimp or mix Krille in with live ghost shrimp. I even go as far as putting fishing line in krille and silver sides to make them "swim" to get stubborn fish to eat. It takes persistance, espcially with bigger fish. They will figure it out eventially. I just got a couple of extra stubborn lion fish to eat frozen food. It took about 1 month to get them to eat willingly. They are doing great now, they eat anythignthat hits the water. Good luck....
 
So you actually waited a month before your lionfish ate anything! Wow, way to beat him at his own game!
 
Probably was a rather skinny lion by that time...lol....bummer. Most Fresh Water fish won't starve themselves to death, in my experiences wit cichlids anyway. Live ghost shrimp is a bet though, almost no fish can resist them, or live earthworms.... ;)
 
garlic shouldn't harm the fish, but as mentioned it might mold the food in the container itself.
i found garlic extract at the health food store they usually carry all that kind of stuff almost all the time.
 
No, I didn't starve my lions for a month, I'm not sure if they would live that long with no food. I started them on live ghost shrimp, weened them to dead ghost shrimp and krille, then started tricking them with pieces of Ocean Nutritions formula one mixed with krille. Now the are conditioned that anything that gets dropped in is food. THey litterally will eat or at least try to eat what ever gets dropped in.

I had a real hard time several years ago with a dat & a royal clown knife that wouldn't eat anything that wasn't alive. I bet it was 4 or 5 months before I got them to eat food sticks with out being reluctent. I had a temnisis do the same thing to me. Took a long time but they all figured it out.

Joel
 
Just buy a jar of minced garlic and sqeeze some juice on your food just before use. I don't know if it will act as an appetite stimulant but the juice is a useful by product of something you can eat yourself.
 
thanks guys, i will try using my own garlic today, hopefully my dat will eat soon! :D
 
I've never had garlic extract work on any of my freshwater fish. Saltwater appears to be a different story.
 
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