Aquarino KH — User Manual · Printed from manual.aquarino.com.br/en/kh/19-the-first-seven-days/

The first seven days

This chapter is a route. If you have just installed the equipment, follow it and by the end of the first week you will have an Aquarino KH tuned to your aquarium — and, more importantly, the confidence of knowing why it is tuned that way.

Day 1 — install and calibrate

• Install the equipment, the hose and the probe (Chapters 4 and 5).
• Install the app, create your account and add the equipment (Chapters 6 and 7).
• Run a full calibration with a chemical test you trust (Chapter 10).
• Set target and margin (Chapter 14). Leave correction off for now.
• Set the interval to 1 hour and notification to Always.

Days 2 and 3 — observe

• Change nothing. Let the equipment measure.
• Once a day, open Graphs and look at the last 24 hours.
• Check the aeration in both chambers (Chapter 13) — it is the adjustment that most affects reading quality.

By the end of the third day you should be able to answer: what is my aquarium's daily KH swing, and does it follow the photoperiod?

Day 4 — check against the chemical test

• Run a chemical test at the same time of day and from the same collection point as the equipment.
• Compare it with the value measured at that hour.
• If the difference is within your kit's margin of error — it is given in the kit's manual —, all is well: do not recalibrate.
• If it is larger, run a partial calibration (Chapter 11).

Days 5 and 6 — turn correction on

• If you use 3-in-1 balling or want a safety net: turn on the Alkalinity Doser in Normal mode, calibrate the pump and enter the mL to raise 1 dKH (Chapter 16).
• If you use a calcium reactor: enable the CO2 Port and start watching the hourly percentages (Chapter 17).
• Follow the event log in Logs to see the decisions the equipment is making.

Day 7 — adjust and settle

• Calcium reactor: set the bubble counter so the port lands in the ideal ranges (75–90% during the photoperiod, 15–30% outside it).
• If you have another replenishment system: look at the Buffer (mL) parameter in Graphs. If the doser is dosing more and more, check your main system — it is what is letting KH fall.
• Change notification from Always to Off target.
• If the system is steady, you can raise the measurement interval to 2–4 hours — unless you are using the CO2 Port or the Alkalinity Doser, which measure every hour.