Calcium help!! Kind of urgent

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Hello! I have noticed lately my lps like bubble coral, hammers, and some soft coral have not been doing great. So i started trouble shooting. Buying every test kit I can get. I just got a calcium test kit and i noticed that my calcium is 600!!! Anyways to lower it?
 

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Hello! I have noticed lately my lps like bubble coral, hammers, and some soft coral have not been doing great. So i started trouble shooting. Buying every test kit I can get. I just got a calcium test kit and i noticed that my calcium is 600!!! Anyways to lower it?
WC would be the only way.
 

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What's your pH & Alk? If your pH is low, but continues to dose calcium into the tank, your coral will not be able to use it and thus the calcium will continue to build up in the water without being absorbed.
 

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Water change every 2-3 days of 10%
 

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That's pretty high, how about a retest with a different kit or at your lfs? But either way I doubt high Cal is bothering your corals
 
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OK
I don't dose it. I got a salifert test kit for calcium (i was using api) My ph was low, but I added a bubbler and now its higher. What kind of salt would have low calcium?
 

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