Garlic or vitamins on nori... balogna?

[Moe_K]

Back in the day I used to let my square of nori soak in vitamins before I rolled the nori cigarette, placed into the clip, and fed the fish.
Nowadays, I'm not so energetic. I just use straight nori. The fish attack it with the same gusto. They get a full stomach and are healthy.

Has there been any scientific research on the vitamin/garlic rub to see if the nutrients actually make it to the fish's gut instead of just getting washed off and polluting the water?

Any proof that vitamins are actually helpful to our fish? Maybe it's just snake oil?


Feel free to chime in with your food supplementation recipes and stories. I'm here to read.

 

[Old Glory]

I use garlic and Selcon. I add a few drops of each to my defrosted and rinsed cubes. Feed a mix of mysis; large mysis; PE Mysis; and rotate reef plankton or mega marine algae as well as nori.

 

[stingythingy45]

Yup,I used to soak the nori in Selcon back when I first got into the hobby.
Just too lazy these days.Seem most nori products have garlic in them already.
Personally,I don't think garlic does very much for health.

 

[GobyWanKenobie]

I buy the Ocean Nutritition nori with garlic. My fish love it. I alternate between three different seaweed brands, only one has garlic. I read somewhere that too much garlic is actually bad for the fish. I think it is bad for their liver or something. Since there is no right or wrong in this hobby, I do everything in moderation.

 

[PSU4ME]

I agree that garlic isn't of much use to fish that are eating.....its more of a stimulant than everything. I feed Larry's reef frenzy which has fats and vitamins added and I soak it in zoe and selcon every 2-3 days. With that said, i don't find it necessary to soak the nori in anything but it is important that the fish get it, regardless of the delivery vehicle! the nori cigarette is a cool idea.

 

[stingythingy45]

On a side note,I've never tried balogna on my fish.