High alkalinity and calcium

Finally got the phosphate checker in and it’s reading .07ppm

pH test reading 7.5

I did test my tap water again and alk is reading 1.3 and calcium was 83ppm.

I think thats gonna be my issue. In the past it has not given me a reading but they must’ve changed something in the water. It hasn’t ever really been an issue because I typically was only doing wcs every 2-3 weeks and it being so minuscule it never caused an issue but since my skimmer has not been working I’ve had to do a lot more wcs which has slowly raised the levels. Now that I know I’m going to only use RO water and probably try to transition into Red Sea reef crystals.

Thanks everyone for the help and advice! Hopefully I can slowly get this tank back to normal and looking great again!
 

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