Do frozen foods contain ich?

[Lotus]

I was reading on another site and someone said frozen foods (bloodworm, brine shrimp etc.) sometimes have ich that can infect your tank.

I have heard differing opinions on ich. Some say it is always present in a tank, just waiting for stressed fish. Others say it is introduced on fish/plants.

Now I am wondering if frozen foods can introduce it.

Any ideas?

 

[Colisa lalia]

Don't worry your tank is probably already infected. That's the thing with parasites they travel quickly can stay hidden for long times and then suddenly appear. Frozen foods probably are much cleaner than your tank since they are usually irradiated and also the bloodworms aren't raised with fish so the parasite would not want to live with the bloodworms either. Either way don't get overly worried. Healthy fish easily resist infection.

 

[JWright]

Agreed, Ich is rather like the common cold. It's always around, but as long as your healthy, you don't get infected.

 

[beaver8888]

never heard anyhting about that could be possible but i doubt it

 

[Lotus]

Thanks for the input. It didn't seem likely to me that there would be parasites in frozen food, and that was the only time I ever read that warning about using frozen foods.

 

[Gomer]

I feed my 29g fish frozen food almost every night. No ich at all in there.

 

[Davy]

I do the same as Gomer. No ich. I'm not sure but wouldn't the extreme cold kill the ich?

 

[AmazonTankz]

I would say deffinitly not. If you look on the packeage of your frozen food it states that the food has been throughly cleaned and id free of parisites and other things. (or something like that)

And as stated above, even if it somehow contained ich, your fish should not be suseptable to it, if you practice good husbandery.(sp?)