[rlcline76]

I don't use algone. Really, there are a ton of Randy Holmes Farley articles in the Library...breaks it all down. Nitrates are one of those things that will just build and build. We try to do stuff like decent skimming, use macroalgae, try not to overfeed, DSBs, denitrators and so on and so forth.
My question, does that Algone bottle tell you what to monitor when you use it? Any parameters that could go out of whack?
Jury is still out on what health damages nitrates can have on livestock (meaning we don't know each and every little thing yet). However, it is not as damaging as ammonia. It would probably been just as easy (cheaper, too) to do some good water changes, change some bad feeding habits, maybe take a couple of fish back to the LFS if you have overstocked than to even wonder what is in that bottle and what it could do.