potassium permanganate-good or bad?

[Fitz]

Anyone with any opinions? Is potassium permanganate, when used to raise ORP values, a good or bad thing? Fitz.

[MiNdErAsR]

IMO bad...you might as well be adding bleach to your tank.

[Tderasa]

i would avoid it. potassium permanganate is a powerful oxidizing agent.

[sculpin]

Bad!

[simonh]

"Liquid Ozone" :) I'll add that I too think it is BAD.

If against the comments here you do decide to use it I would suggest that you need an ORP monitor (just as with ozone) to be able to monitor dosage (just dumping in what a manufacturer says is IMO asking for trouble).

[DJREEF]

The old folks used to use this as a sterilizer for vegetables. It kills a number of gushy critters/internal parisites of humans, etc. I don't think this would be real beneficial for a system designed to keep gushy sea critters alive.

DJ