Soaking food in ich attack.

[Jmas4]

Ok I have a fish in my qt. He had ich and I treated him with copper. The ich was gone in 3 days and never came back. He is still in the qt with copper as a precaution.
Anyway, I had a thought. I have a bottle of ich attack that I bought a while back and it's getting closer to its shelf life. (I don't use it anymore). But I did have success with it. But my skimmer went mad and I had to do WC often. Instead of dumping it in the tank like before, what if I soak my food in it? I don't think it can be harmful to the fish doing it this way. In fact it might be more effective. And I don't need to turn off my skimmer, do water changes, and worry about coral. What are your thoughts?
Thanks

 

[CC13]

Ok I have a fish in my qt. He had ich and I treated him with copper. The ich was gone in 3 days and never came back. He is still in the qt with copper as a precaution.
Anyway, I had a thought. I have a bottle of ich attack that I bought a while back and it's getting closer to its shelf life. (I don't use it anymore). But I did have success with it. But my skimmer went mad and I had to do WC often. Instead of dumping it in the tank like before, what if I soak my food in it? I don't think it can be harmful to the fish doing it this way. In fact it might be more effective. And I don't need to turn off my skimmer, do water changes, and worry about coral. What are your thoughts?
Thanks

The ICH may not be visible after 3 days but its still in the water, as eggs or still in the gills of the fish. You need to treat and maintain the level of copper for the entire treatment time.

Anyways onto your question, I doubt the ICH attack does anything. If there was a cure for ICH that was as simply soaking food, the company who invested it would be millionaires overnight. If its garlic based, I have read that garlic actually hurts and can deteriorate the liver of the fish... many people don't soak fish food in garlic for this reason.

I would keep up with your copper treatment for the remainder of the days.

 

[4FordFamily]

Copper treatment for 30 days, or 14 days and a transfer to a completely sterile quarantine immediately following would be the correct course of action for you. Ich attack has a neat name but unfortunately that's where it ends.

if chelated copper (Copper Power, CopperSafe, etc) make sure the level stays above 1.75PPM for the entire treatment period (without adding anything else to the quarantine) and for ionic copper (cupramine, cuprion) it's ~0.5PPM.

I highly recommend the Hanna Copper checker to accurate measure it so you don't have to do this again. Don't keep them in copper longer than needed, treat them all, and do it going forward, and you'll be in good shape!

 

[Jmas4]

Thanks for the concern. Before, I used to just put my fish in my dt but after loosing some of my favorite fish to diseases, I now qt. The fish i have has been in my qt for about 3 weeks in 0.5 cupramine.
Perhaps the ich attack I used before didn't work 100%. But all my fish were healthy and had pristine water. Perhaps a combo of good water, low stress, ich attack and medicated foods helped contain the ich to a benign level.

Perhaps I should rephrase the question. Will soaking food in ich attack be more effective than just putting ich attack in the water? This is just a curiosity question and I'm only asking this so I can use the leftover ich attack before I throw it out. Just a little extra protection along with my copper. This WON'T be my method of curing ich. All I want to know is if consuming high concentration of ich attack is dangerous.

 

[CC13]

Before, I used to just put my fish in my dt but after loosing some of my favorite fish to diseases, I now qt. The fish i have has been in my qt for about 3 weeks in 0.5 cupramine.

If you originally placed fish with ICH in your display tank... its still there unless you let the tank go fallow for a period of time with no fish (I believe the fallow period is 70-90 days but not certain). Even if you QT and you put 100% healthy fish that have just come from QT and are ICH free into your display tank, since ICH is already in there, you basically putting them into a tank with ICH all over again.

 

[Jmas4]

If you originally placed fish with ICH in your display tank... its still there unless you let the tank go fallow for a period of time with no fish (I believe the fallow period is 70-90 days but not certain). Even if you QT and you put 100% healthy fish that have just come from QT and are ICH free into your display tank, since ICH is already in there, you basically putting them into a tank with ICH all over again.

Thanks for your input. But this fish is going into a different tank in which I plan to qt all my fish.

 

[CC13]

Thanks for your input. But this fish is going into a different tank in which I plan to qt all my fish.

Ok ok good

 

[dannyfish]

I wouldn’t feed your fish Ich Attack, if it’s doing well.