Advice on low calcium

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10 g tank
6 months old tank
10 lbs live rock
Salinity: 1.026
Temp: 78
Live stock:
1 black and white ocellaris
1 black snowflake ocellaris
1 pepppermint shrimp
3 nassarius snail
3 cerith snails
2 blue leg hermit crab
3 bumble bee snail
2 astraea snail
2 chalice frags (mummy eye, my miami)
2 acan frags
1 acan echinaca frag
1 pocillipora frag
1 frogspawn frag
10 zoa/paly frags
2 mushrooms
1 ricordia florida
I Kenia coral frag
1 green star poly frag
30% water changes every week
I had notice that every time I test my parameters calcium gets lower, I use Red Sea pro test kit. Im using Instan Ocean saltmix, I used to use Reef Crystal before but stopped it because alk and mag were high. Now those elements are where I want them to be but not for calsium.
My questions are:
Should I go back to Reef Crystal and deal with high levels of alk and mag?
Or keep using IO saltmix and dose calcium in every water changes?
I test every 2 weeks!!
Calcuim levels
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Alk levels
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Mag levels
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Thanks for reading!!!
 

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It would be easier to just dose calcium than to change salts and worry about alk and mag.
 
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Whinch brand you guys would recommend me to buy, or it does not matter as long is calcium supplement?
Thanks for your replies guys!!!
 

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Bump It up with a calcium additive.
 

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