Dennerle Bio CO2 Professional Notice D'utilisation page 5

BIO CO
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Biological CO
With CO control gel and CO
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- Instructions for use: Please read thoroughly. Store in a safe place. -
Congratulations on your purchase of this high-quality Bio CO
you to supply your aquarium easily, reliably and evenly with CO2 – the most important fertilizer for aquarium plants.
DENNERLE hopes you will have many hours of fun and pleasure with your aquarium!
CO is essential for all aquarium plants
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From the building blocks of CO (carbon dioxide), water and light,
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plants produce their most important nutrient and energy store: sugar.
They will only grow and truly thrive – and provide your fish with the
oxygen they, in turn, need – if your aquarium's water contains enough
CO .
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So only tanks with very few plants or none at all will require additional
aeration as the natural producers of oxygen are missing.
A constant CO supply
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has other advantages
CO dissolves in water partly as carbonic acid. Most tropical aquarium
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fish and plants love this slightly sour water. It has a positive impact on
the sensitive skin of the fish. It will be easily for plants to absorb essen-
tial trace elements.
As it directly encourages considerable plant growth, a constant CO
ply even fights algae. Thousands of times over, it has been proven that
healthily growing water plants rob algae of the nutrients they need to
survive. As a consequence, existing algae generally shrink visibly within
a few weeks, effectively preventing algae from spreading excessively.
Constant CO production
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through CO control gel
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A fermentation process with pure sugar normally starts out very rapid-
ly, but abruptly drops off again after just a few days. DENNERLE Bio CO
with CO control gel, on the other hand, produces a constant amount
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of CO for at least 30 days – that translates into a virtually constant
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amount of CO for over one month.
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CO production
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at varying temperatures
termperature (°C) CO -need of the number of bubbles average operation
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aquarium per day apprx.* in days
21 low 7.000 45
24 normal 10.000 30
27 high 13.000 24
* Biological processes are never perfectly identical. Small differences in
the production of CO are therefore quite normal. But a total of more
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than 300.000 bubbles per bottle will always be produced.
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Bio-Line
Professional
fertilizer for aquaria.
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Topper.
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fertilizer system from DENNERLE. When properly used and maintained, it will allow
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DENNERLE Bio CO and aquarium size
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The Bio CO Professional Set is ideal for aquaria up to 120 litres capa-
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city.
Please note: The stronger the movement of the water surface (e.g., by
filters, additional aeration), the more CO will be expelled from the
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aquarium.
What the parts do
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Bio CO bottle: with CO control gel for constant, even CO
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Starter capsule: to start the biological production of CO
Thermo container: automatically adjusts CO
temperature of the aquarium
Self-adhesive strips: for fastening the thermo container
onto the aquarium
Cover for the thermo container
Short CO hose: from the Bio CO bottle to the bubble counter
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Bubble counter: for monitoring and cleaning the CO
Long CO hose: from the bubble counter to the CO
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CO Topper: for quick, effective CO diffusion. With waste gas vent.
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production
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production to the
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Topper
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Installation and Connection
1. Select an easily accessible place on
your aquarium for mounting the ther-
mo container. Pull the protective foil
off the adhesive strips on the thermo
container.
Press the thermo container vertically
onto a clean and fat-free aquarium
pane and make sure it is firmly atta-
ched. The thermo container has to fit
evenly all around against the pane.
Please note: The adhesive strips stick
very tightly. After pressing the thermo
container onto the pane, you will not
be able to move it.
2. Unscrew the cap of the Bio CO bott-
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le, open the life-up lid and take out
the starter capsule. Carefully pull up
and remove the green half of the cap-
sule.
Pour the contents of the starter cap-
sule into the bottle. Add the empty
capsule halves to the bottle as well.
3. Fill the bottle up to the marker line
(arrows) with tap water at 20 to
25°C (NOT more than 25°C!).
CO Topper effectively diffuses CO
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Screw the cap on tightly. Important:
The CO produced is collected in the CO
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Inside the connector nipple of the
into the aquarium water. While the CO
bottle cap is a built-in white microfil-
gases that are also naturally dissolved in the aquarium water enter the
ter. It must not be removed.
gas bubbles under the collector. Since these so-called waste gases are
much lighter than the relatively heavy CO
4. Break or carefully cut off the lift-up
the collector, where they are regularly released automatically through
lid.
the specially designed waste-gas vent.
5. Fill the bubble counter up to 3/4
The heavy CO
with tap water. TIP: To do that,
next to the water. The mature design of the CO
immerse the bubble counter vertically
of the valuable CO
in water and slightly tap its lid.
Exchanging the Bio CO
6. Connect the bottle with the short CO
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The bottle is used up if less than one bubble per minute is produced. In
hose to the long pipe nipple of the
that case:
bubble counter.
• Remove the cover from the thermo container.
7. Push the long CO hose onto the
• Remove bottle with connected bubble counter.
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second connector (without pipe nip-
• Pull hose from bottle cap.
ple) of the bubble counter.
• Start Bio CO
reverse order.
8. From above, place the bottle together
with the connected bubble counter
The contents of the used-up bottle can be poured into regular house
into the recesses provided for them in
drains. Discard the plastic bottle in a suitable recycling bin.
the thermo container.
9. Place the cover onto the thermo con- TIP: Always keep a Bio CO
tainer. Align the bubble counter so
have any problems if you run out of CO
that it fits into its recess in the con-
tainer cover.
10. Rinse CO Topper with warm tap
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water. Do not use any detergents.
11. Connect CO Topper to the long hose
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that leads to the bubble counter.
12. In the aquarium, select a place with
good, but not too strong water cir-
culation. This place should not be
too bright to prevent possible algae
growth. By means of the two suc-
tion cups, attach CO Topper hori-
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zontally, with the opening facing
down at least 5 cm below the water
surface.
When properly used, CO production will
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begin within 24-48 hours.
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Topper, where it then diffuses
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is diffusing into the water, other
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, they collect at the top of
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, on the other hand, is lower in the gas cushion, right
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Topper ensures that all
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is used.
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bottle
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refill (available at pet stores) and re-assemble in
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refill as a back-up. That way, you won't
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at the weekend.
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