I have 2 juvenile clown fish, a jawfish and about 15 snails/ hermits.. I've tested for nitrates (sailfert) it's kind of hard to read the results for that kit but as far as I can tell they look to be around 5ppm. I don't have a phosphate kit yet but I'm using ro/di. Should I still get one?

I don't have any nutrient control.. Besides a skimmer and filter sock and a small refugium. Do most people use some form of it? I haven't read much about it, didn't know I was missing something!

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get phosphate and alk tests,and later magnesium,i built nitrate reactors to keep my nitrates in check