Dennerle Bio CO2 Exclusive Notice D'utilisation page 5

BIO CO
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 fertilizer system from DENNERLE. When properly used and maintained, it will allow you to
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supply your aquarium easily, reliably and evenly with CO – the most important fertilizer for aquarium plants.
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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, plants
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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 aquaria 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 fish
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and plants love this slightly sour water. It has a positive impact on the sen-
sitive skin of the fish. It will be easily for plants to absorb essential trace
elements.
As it directly promotes considerable plant growth, a constant CO
even fights algae. Thousands of times over, it has been proven that healthi-
ly 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 rapidly, but
abruptly drops off again after just a few days. DENNERLE Bio CO
control gel, on the other hand, produces a constant amount of CO
least 30 days – that translates into a virtually constant amount of CO
over one month.
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 than
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300.000 bubbles per bottle will always be produced.
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Bio-Line
Exclusive
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fertilizer for aquaria.
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Mini Flipper.
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DENNERLE Bio CO and aquarium size
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The Bio CO Exclusive Set is ideal for aquaria up to 160 litres capacity.
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Please note: The stronger the movement of the water surface (e.g., by fil-
ters, additional aeration), the more CO will be expelled from the aquari-
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um.
What the parts do
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supply
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with CO
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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 Mini Flipper: for quick, effective CO
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vent.
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production
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production to the
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Mini Flipper
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diffusion. With waste gas
Installation and Connection
1. Select an easily accessible place on your
aquarium for mounting the thermo con-
tainer. 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 attached. 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 bottle,
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open the lift-up lid and take out the star-
ter capsule. Carefully pull up and remo-
ve the green half of the capsule.
Pour the contents of the starter capsule
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!).
Screw the cap on tightly. Important:
Inside the connector nipple of the bottle
cap is a built-in white microfilter. It must
not be removed.
CO Mini Flipper effectively diffuses CO
4. Break or carefully cut off the lift-up lid.
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The CO Mini Flipper needs around 2 days to start working. In the begin-
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5. Fill the bubble counter up to 3/4 with
ning, the individual CO
tap water. TIP: To do that, immerse the
within very short time, a 'biological surface' of micro-organisms will form
bubble counter vertically in water and
on the inclined steps of the CO
slightly tap its lid.
dual CO bubbles to rise to the collector. In the process, the bubbles shrink
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visibly because the CO
6. Connect the bottle with the short CO
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CO will end up in the collector and, from there, will enter the aquarium by
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hose to the long pipe nipple of the bub-
means of diffusion. This ensures that every iota of valuable CO
ble counter.
As time passes, the collector will fill with gas that is automatically released
7. Push the long CO hose onto the second
through the specially designed waste-gas vent. This gas isn't CO
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connector (without pipe nipple) of the
waste gas that enters the CO
bubble counter.
move up the Mini Flipper.
8. From above, place the bottle together
Exchanging the Bio CO
with the connected bubble counter into
The bottle is used up if less than one bubble per minute is produced. In that
the recesses provided for them in the
case:
thermo container.
• Remove the cover from the thermo container.
• Remove bottle with connected bubble counter.
9. Place the cover onto the thermo contai-
• Pull hose from bottle cap.
ner. Align the bubble counter so that it
• Start Bio CO
fits into its recess in the container cover.
reverse order.
10. Rinse CO Mini Flipper with warm tap
The contents of the used-up bottle can be poured into regular house drains.
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water. Do not use any detergents.
Discard the plastic bottle in a suitable recycling bin.
TIP: Always keep a Bio CO
11. Connect CO Mini Flipper to the long
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any problems if you run out of CO
hose that leads to the bubble counter.
12. In the aquarium, select a place with
good, but not too strong water circula-
tion. This place should not be too
bright to prevent possible algae
growth.
By means of the two suction cups,
attach CO Mini Flipper to the inside of
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the aquarium, at least 5 cm below the
water surface. Make sure that plants
do not seriously prevent water from cir-
culating through the ports in the CO
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Mini Flipper.
When properly used, CO production will
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begin within 24-48 hours.
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bubbles will join to form larger bubbles. However,
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Mini Flipper. The surface causes the indivi-
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dissolves into the aquarium water. Any remaining
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is used.
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– it's
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bubbles from the aquarium water as they
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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 have
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at the weekend.
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