Potassium Permanganate in Fish Ponds

Comprehensive detail in understanding the importance of Kmno4 in fish culture, gives insights on how well it can be used to improve the culture condition bringing results as requirement demands for good aquaculture practices within the limits.

Can we say potassium permaganate is a form of probiotic for fish ponds? It serves the same purpose of breaking down fish wastes, removing iron and other harmful bacterias and viruses in fish ponds.

Potassium permanganate is good for treatment of fish. I have used potassium permanganate in treatment of ectoparasites of African catfish. The best means of utilization is not realy through broadcasting in culture water. This is because of several reasons.

1. Potassium permanganate is easily taken up by microbes, zooplanktons and phytoplanktons in the water. It is also easily taken up by slime, materials and substrate.

2. Potassium permanganate can be easily missused and poison the fish if handled by non professional. The fish can be easily stressed by uncontrolled broadcasting in pond surface area. This could to secondary problem in health and fish welfare.

3.To be specific and direct in treament, it is better to apply as a bart treatment in specific volume of water depending on the fish biomass under treatment.

Dosage also depends on severity of infection and age of fish.

4. Barth treatment is very specific and effective in utilisation and has yielded good results against popular ectoparasite and bacteria infection of fish.

Potassium permanganate used in dip barthing can easily be controlled than the broadcast upon the whole pond. This would reduce stress upon fish and offer direct observation on effectiveness of treament.

I have used this method severaly and it works well. However potassium permanganante can be used as broadcast in treatment of whole pond area especially when infection is endemic and there are fears of possibilities of spore formation within pond. This would take good care of the infection while fish are safely treated. This barth means is also good in terms of cost effectiveness as potassium permanganate is not cheap.

The use of Potassium permanganate kali in Fish ponds (or Shrimp pond) is very good, I practised and recorded that it can treat some diseases.

Is it possible to add calcium sulphate along with pottassium permanganate to treat either shrimp or fish pond after cultivation or harvesting to clear the algae etc in the sedimentry soil? Is it safe to use both chemicals?

What would be an alternative source to clear the ponds?

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Potassium permanganate is good for treatment of fish. It is very important to keep the water clean in fish culture, but it is usually very difficult
to regulate the water. We usually add fish lures (betaine) to the fish feed to reduce the leftovers. At same time, we use probiotics to treat water. It is a complex problem.

interesting article about Potassium permanganate. i have found it help myself but as bath rather than broadcasting. 

can someone help me i need input like fish oil and cattle bloodmeal for fish feed manufacturing, i need imported stuffs reach me within 3days

I agree with said friends, that potassium permanganate, KMnO4, is best used for the treatment of fish from bacteria and ectoparasites or as a disinfectant in fish pond. But the thing is, we in Indonesia have difficulty KMnO4 in large numbers because this material is forhibited for sale in large quantities. KMnO4 container can also be used as a material for " bomb ". I want to ask is there any other material that can be used instead of potassium permanganate?

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yes potassium permanganate was a true practable solution, but since it became too expencive i think in large farms this is no more a properiate choice

potassium permanganate is the immediate solution for maintaining the oxygen level in the fish pond and long term solutionis to be sought.

paddles and ploughers are much more cheaper, practable and better oxygen suppliers. potassium permanganate does not work good enough in ponds of high organic load as in earthen ponds (widely used in egypt)