Food soak?

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I food soak with vita chem, selcon, and garlic guard and was just curious if anyone else does this as well. It’s a relatively new practice I’ve been doing and have noticed its helped with picky eaters; I soak PE Mysis, usually another brand of smaller mysis, ROE, and a herbivore mix I’ve found recently in one of the frozen multipacks. I’m just curious about other peoples feeding habits and if you soak what do you use? I currently stock a tomini tang, bluesided fairy wrasse, engineer goby, long fin clown, starry blenny and a Valentini puffer in a 105.4 waterbox :)
 
I always do selcon, i did some vitachem in the past when I found a bottle in my cabinet.

Unless I have an actively picky eater who will not eat food without garlic, i would not use garlic for every meal. There have been reports that garlic can cause liver damage in fish.
 
I've never soaked any food. I feed a wide variety of different foods, so somehow every fish is getting something they like and the varied food offers varied nutrition. My opinion only, cheers.
 
I food soak with vita chem, selcon, and garlic guard and was just curious if anyone else does this as well. It’s a relatively new practice I’ve been doing and have noticed its helped with picky eaters; I soak PE Mysis, usually another brand of smaller mysis, ROE, and a herbivore mix I’ve found recently in one of the frozen multipacks. I’m just curious about other peoples feeding habits and if you soak what do you use? I currently stock a tomini tang, bluesided fairy wrasse, engineer goby, long fin clown, starry blenny and a Valentini puffer in a 105.4 waterbox :)
Not new at all Paul B has been doing it for 50 years. He also soaks his food in fish oil
 
I only soak in garlic if there's an issue with a fish in the tank. I've never QT'd until the last fish I just added but I've been very selective about where I buy fish so I haven't had many issues and/or been super lucky!
 

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