Hi
Anyone ever used hydrogen peroxide or Potasium Permanganate in existing tank?
I want to know what's the impact on plants, can move fish for period of treatment as well as whole filtration.
Not interested in "natural methods" been there done that - not working for me
So if any of You have any experience with these or maybe other substances i would appreciate some insight.
Thanks

Esha Gastropex

Kev.

They are not meanth to be used in an existing ank, first they will kill your filter and second it's gonna be nearly imposible to control the dosage so efectivnes can be zero or the opposite, u might kill all your fish. In an estabilished tank better use any of shelf products in petshops after u take out as much of the snail population so you won't polute your tank. You can remove most of your snails by putting some lettuce on a dish you can easily remove from the tank. Leave that in the tank overnight and repeat a couple of times. No feeding or little feeding helps.

totally agree with Xeon that is the best advice. loaches are another option but again feeding is key if there is easy food in the tank they ignore the snails.

potassium permanganate wont cure your snail problem but it is a very useful compound.
medicinally it is used as an antiseptic and a fungicide. it cures athlethes foot and
other female problems. it can be used to control fish diseases and parasites
including bacterial gill infection and skin ulcers. it dramatically improves water
quality by reducing biological oxygen demand as a result of disolved organic
matter. it is effective against fungus,bacteria and algae. it also controls
parasitic nudibranches in aquariums.a dosage rate of one per 10,000 is recomended.
this would leave the water a nice pink colour. any higher dosage is dangerous.
i still use it.
phil

Phil u omited at list one zero there, potassium permanganate should be used as 2mg/litre as a long bath 4 to 6 hours, 10mg/l as a shorth bath 10-20 min, that is one part per 100.000. U can use the dose u recomended for a realy shorth plant bath, no fish or other live critters. Still I whould use a weaker solution for a longer period of time. This is one long story that should not be made short.

I whould not recomend anyone to use it unless they really know what they are doing.

I do agree with you about the medicinal uses.

@Bart They are not used to control snail populations in a tank. As they are strong oxidants u can use them to get rid of the snails on the plants in a buket of water. In small concentrations the snails won't die they will just get as deep in their shell as they can so they won't be attached on anything. The snails will be at the bottom of your bucket while u can easily take the plant out "clean". In higher concentrations the snails whould die.

At list this worked out for me everytime.

Thanks everyone

maybe get one of the sponsers to order some assassin snails for you..im thinking about it myself as i;ve a few snails knocking about.

The assasin snails are great if u have a small population of pest snails, but if u have lots well, they can only eat so much.
Regards,
Denis..........

pkearney wrote:
potassium permanganate wont cure your snail problem but it is a very useful compound.
medicinally it is used as an antiseptic and a fungicide. it cures athlethes foot and
other female problems. it can be used to control fish diseases and parasites
including bacterial gill infection and skin ulcers. it dramatically improves water
quality by reducing biological oxygen demand as a result of disolved organic
matter. it is effective against fungus,bacteria and algae. it also controls
parasitic nudibranches in aquariums.a dosage rate of one per 10,000 is recomended.
this would leave the water a nice pink colour. any higher dosage is dangerous.
i still use it.
phil

Hi Phil,

Is this stuff any use against Planaria? They are not in the tank but have colonised my filter (canister). I have already tried giving it a good scrub and have drastically reduced feeding and this has helped alot but they are still there in smaller numbers though. Should I just continue with the small feeding policy as I think Im winning the battle but would like to see them gone for good, if thats even possible. Cheers,

Jay