I bought some parasite medicated food because I think one of my oscars may been infected. It was in a tube so I couldnt see how big the pellets were but they were tiny so I was curious if I could feed it to my feeder fish and then them to my oscars and would it work like putting medicine in a gel cap? Also if while I quarantine my feeders I fed them this would there be less chance of my oscars becoming sick? Just curious - Jon

I'm not sure that feeding medication to feeders and then to Oscars would be that beneficial. It be rather like feeding painkillers to your dog and then eating him, would it really work? I suppose you'd be getting some of the medication, but not all of that. I think you'd be better off putting the pellets in food. There are various things you could try, blocks of beef heart would probably be very easy to insert little pellets in the side. Depending on how small these little pellets, you could even soak some big Cichlid pellets until they are fairly soft and then push the pellets inside. I'm sure other people will come up with some ideas

Good idea thanks

Which food did you get exactly? If jungle labs brand, here's some info about it I copied from the web somewhere, to start with:


Looking at that, I don't think that feeder fish idea is so great. Both above mentioned foods contain antibiotics I think (correct me if I'm wrong), and you don't want your fish to get too little of that because you some bacteria might survive, and then you end up with bacteria colonies resistant to antibiotics. Means the next time your fish would not respond to antibiotic treatment anymore.
Penn's idea is good, and if you can't find anything to put the small pellets in for your oscars to eat, I'd go for that soaking cichlid pellets idea. You could even soak the pellets, mix them with the medicated food then and add some gelatine along with as a bit of water (as little as possible). Then spreading that on some surface, and once it's not liquid anymore, you can take suiting bits of it and feed to your Oscars. It's the way you make your own fish food, I'm just not sure if it you can make bigger amounts and freeze it in this case because of the meds in it

They also said on that site that the food is good for prevention but I personally would never do that regularly with anything containing antibiotics - and probably neither with any other medication, thinking if we stuffed ourselves with whatever meds just so we won't get sick we probably would get sick from the meds then.
For preventive reasons, you could try feeding fresh chopped garlic for example, it's said to be not liked by many intestinal parasites and has a bit of an anti-bacterial effect as well. The fish won't smell like it neither, only your hands will