Seems like this would be a good product to use/reccomend to people when their fry get "pin-tailed" from fungus when their born in tanks with high nitrates/bioload. I personally use methylene blue because its safer, but i have been looking for something else to switch to and to use for fungus infections because methylene is so messy and stains everything. However i am skepital for using PP as a "cure" for columnaris, we all know columnaris is a bacteria that lives inside the fish and i don't see how this would cure anything internal infection wise.
This is one product where being skeptical is almost necessary!
It can be WAY more messy then any of the dye based meds.
As for whether it cured my columnaris 8 months of no deaths in a crowded breeding tank tells me it did,but who can really say(many links say it does also!)
If I have not mentioned this yet to me the #1 thing about this "tool" is be confident and competent in it's use.
It has little room for error and zero forgiveness if not properly used.
On the ammonia note without any real links to site I say the test were skewed by the PP.
When I overdosed my swordtails years ago my chlorine test went crazy!
So reading ammonia only makes me wonder and not ,to be honest have much concern!
At this point I have proper average test and knowledge to let my fish guide me through this.
Both of my 40s still showed ammonia later this am so I added prime (well SAFE in a single dose) as I still wonder?
I will say both of those tanks(my yellow GBR and my 2 year old breeding stock are looking like they are loving it(or atleast each other!)
The breeding and territorial behavior is ON!
In Dr roddys link he mentioned using the PP to grow the largest kio for the million dollar contest.
I think I will see how big of a ram I can grow!
Same link mentioned magnesium also I believe which Jarrod has questions about.
Hopefully he will be on board this thread shortly.