diff --git a/app/public/cantusdata/management/commands/index_manuscript_mei.py b/app/public/cantusdata/management/commands/index_manuscript_mei.py
index 48752779..202ccf0f 100644
--- a/app/public/cantusdata/management/commands/index_manuscript_mei.py
+++ b/app/public/cantusdata/management/commands/index_manuscript_mei.py
@@ -58,20 +58,9 @@ def add_arguments(self, parser: CommandParser) -> None:
                 "documents for the specified manuscript before indexing the new data."
             ),
         )
-        parser.add_argument(
-            "--test-core",
-            action="store_true",
-            help=(
-                "Use the test core for indexing. Used when running unittests on this"
-                "command. Defaults to False."
-            ),
-        )
 
     def handle(self, *args: Any, **options: Any) -> None:
-        if options["test_core"]:
-            solr_conn = SolrConnection(settings.SOLR_TEST_SERVER)
-        else:
-            solr_conn = SolrConnection(settings.SOLR_SERVER)
+        solr_conn = SolrConnection(settings.SOLR_SERVER)
         manuscript_id = options["manuscript_id"][0]
         if options.get("flush_index"):
             self.flush_manuscript_ngrams_from_index(solr_conn, manuscript_id)
diff --git a/app/public/cantusdata/test/core/management/commands/test_index_manuscript_mei.py b/app/public/cantusdata/test/core/management/commands/test_index_manuscript_mei.py
index 8d5aaa41..f82d2fb6 100644
--- a/app/public/cantusdata/test/core/management/commands/test_index_manuscript_mei.py
+++ b/app/public/cantusdata/test/core/management/commands/test_index_manuscript_mei.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ def test_index_manuscript_mei(self) -> None:
             "5",
             "--mei-dir",
             TEST_MEI_FILES_PATH,
-            "--test-core",
         )
         results = self.solr_conn.query("*:*", fq="type:omr_ngram")
         with self.subTest("Test total number of indexed documents"):
@@ -54,16 +53,12 @@ def test_flush_option(self) -> None:
             "123723",
             "--mei-dir",
             TEST_MEI_FILES_PATH,
-            "--test-core",
         )
-
         with self.subTest("Check index is not empty before test"):
             results = self.solr_conn.query("*:*", fq="type:omr_ngram")
             self.assertGreater(len(results), 0)
 
         with self.subTest("Test flush option"):
-            call_command(
-                "index_manuscript_mei", "123723", "--flush-index", "--test-core"
-            )
+            call_command("index_manuscript_mei", "123723", "--flush-index")
             results = self.solr_conn.query("*:*", fq="type:omr_ngram")
             self.assertEqual(len(results), 0)