medicated tank, will my plants make it?

[godzilla]

I am heavily medicating my tank with Metronidazole. I am also leaving the lights off to help keep the fish calm. This will be for about 4 days, or until my fish start eating and acting normal again (or they all die, god forbid)

Are there any measures I should take for my plants? I have a 29 gal planted tank that I can move plants to, but its pretty crowded already and I dont really want to do that unless I have to.

any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Purrbox]

If you inject CO2, it should be turned off during the treatment with lights off. Adding an airstone would probably be beneficial to both the fish and plants.

 

[godzilla]

Can I dose excel? do you think that will have any effect on the meds?

 

[Purrbox]

I have no idea whether or not there are any possible reactions between Excel and the medication. That would be a good questions for Seachem. There wouldn't be much point of dosing the Excel since your plants won't be able to use it with the lights off.

 

[godzilla]

well before I medicated the tank I was overdosing excel to help with a hair algae problem I was having. i was hoping to take care of that but the lights out should help some...

 

[Purrbox]

In that case, as long as there aren't any problems with the medication and Excel interacting, you could continue dosing the Excel.