Dosing more Alkalinity than CA

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What effect will that have on my tank? I have noticed white specs all over my glass seems like precipitants. I know they are not alive I simply clean my glass and a few weeks later they return. Is this from mostly dosing Alk? If I continue this what will happen?


So I am very new at Reefing, and I am not sure if I am posting in the right section. I apologize if I am. So I have a 200 gallon system running mostly Neptune devices including a Trident and Dos etc.. I currently have around 12 fish , a torch, frag of Zoa's and a couple of other frags. I didn't want to buy any corals until I could be confident they would thrive, so far so good. My lighting is 4 Ecothech Radion G6 pros. I am currently using Red sea blue bucket salt. I have a 7 stage BRS Rodi system. Well that's just some info on equipment. Since I have had my Trident I have noticed that my Alk drops quite a bit , I started dosing soda ash threw my DOs and I currently dose around 50ml everyday. Doing so it stays around 8.6DkH steady. I watch my CA and It rarely changes and when it does I just manual dose CA I keep it around 460. I try to keep my MG at around 1450 but same thing it rarely drops. I dose Soda ash more than anything seems like that's all I dose worried that my CA would rise too much. It must be imbalanced but everything seems to be alive and thriving.
 
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What effect will that have on my tank? I have noticed white specs all over my glass seems like precipitants. I know they are not alive I simply clean my glass and a few weeks later they return. Is this from mostly dosing Alk? If I continue this what will happen?


So I am very new at Reefing, and I am not sure if I am posting in the right section. I apologize if I am. So I have a 200 gallon system running mostly Neptune devices including a Trident and Dos etc.. I currently have around 12 fish , a torch, frag of Zoa's and a couple of other frags. I didn't want to buy any corals until I could be confident they would thrive, so far so good. My lighting is 4 Ecothech Radion G6 pros. I am currently using Red sea blue bucket salt. I have a 7 stage BRS Rodi system. Well that's just some info on equipment. Since I have had my Trident I have noticed that my Alk drops quite a bit , I started dosing soda ash threw my DOs and I currently dose around 50ml everyday. Doing so it stays around 8.6DkH steady. I watch my CA and It rarely changes and when it does I just manual dose CA I keep it around 460. I try to keep my MG at around 1450 but same thing it rarely drops. I dose Soda ash more than anything seems like that's all I dose worried that my CA would rise too much. It must be imbalanced but everything seems to be alive and thriving.
I can't give you much information, I can point you in a direction, if your dosing sodium chloride and sodium carbonate you should dose equal parts, when your calcium is lowered to around 420ish at 35ppt. There's a few threads out there on this topic
 

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