How to: Treat your Pond or Fish with Potassium Permanganate. Let me show you the exact method to not hurt your fish, or destroy your nitrate cycle!
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Treating fish with potassium permanganate
Potassium permanganate can be used to treat parasites on individual fish. It will eliminate anchor worms, fish lice, flukes, ich, costia, cotton mouth, fungus and many types of bacteria. Prepare 8 Litres (2.1US G.) of water at aquarium temperature and add 1/8 teaspoon (0.6g) of crystals.
Stir until dissolved.
Dip fish into solution for 5 minutes. If fish looks stressed, remove at once.
Dip fish into clean water for a few seconds to rinse.
Do NOT use this level of potassium permanganate in an aquarium tank!
Tank treatment
Potassium permanganate is an effective anti-parasite treatment (Ich, etc.), as well as being able to remove odours from tanks and increasing the redox potential of the water.
However as this compound is very toxic, using the wrong dosage will result in killing all life in the tank.
Biological filtration systems should be removed before applying.
This compound works best with little or no light.
Typically used against bacteria (including your nitrifying bacteria in your filter) and parasites. You use a solution of 2ppm (this is 0.5 grams per 380L (100 US gallons) or 0.065g per 50L). Repeated every 2–3 days for a maximum of 5 treatments.
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