reducing calcium advice

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List of things to upgrade to and are important:

Better test kits. Need to be able to test PO4 (I use a Hanna) NO4 low range, alk, cal and mag (I use Red Sea)
RODI unit or at least a good source of water from a friend or LFS. Personally I don't trust anyone's water but the water I make and I even make mistakes.

Those 2 thing will be a life savers to your tank. I keep 30 gallons of salt mixed and ready to go incase of any issues and I do the same with RODI water. I also check my Alk, Cal, NO3 and PO4 at least once a week and my Mag about once ever 2-4 weeks.
Yea I'm looking for a good test kit n thanks for the advice on test kits idk what's good I've been using API.

I been using the ro water from the place for 5 years n never had a problem. The Rodi is def on check list but gonna find a good cheap one.

I need to start testing more lol.


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Ok. If you have the time you can just switch over right away and do a 1 gallon water change every other day


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Once it's where I want to be, can go back to using coral pro by using the same method 1gal every other day to transition back to coral pro right.


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Once it's where I want to be, can go back to using coral pro by using the same method 1gal every other day to transition back to coral pro right.


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Once you get to where you want to be you can go back to RSCP salt and do small water changes weekly (3-4 gallons). You will need decent test kits for Nitrates and Magnesium. Personally I like Salifert for those. For Alk I use API because it's easy to do. Do you have a lot of SPS? or high SPS colonies?
 

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