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3. Clean the area onto which the holder rail is to be glued
generously with rubbing alcohol, or alcohol. The glass
area must be clean, dry and fat free.
4. Also clean the side of the holder rail to be glued with
rubbing alcohol, or alcohol (not with acetone!).
5. Evenly distribute aquarium silicone to the assigned
zones of the holder rail (2.2).
6. Carefully glue the holder rail to the cleaned glass zone
(according to your mark), and press it on rmly. Make
sure the angle is directed upwards (2.3). A possibly
occurring glue bulge must be removed immediately.
7. Leave the aquarium in its tilted position while the
aquarium silicone dries (24 hours).
8. Bring the aquarium in its nal position after 24 hours
and clean the glass areas carefully with plenty of wa-
ter, but without any detergents.
9. Now you can t the body of the internal lter with its
desired lter material equipped as desired (2.3) and
then put the lid (4.3) on.
Installation when retting
1. Carefully measure the sera bioactive IF 400 + UV in-
ternal lter and the aquarium pane intended for in-
stallation, as to avoid tting problems. Check how high
the sera bioactive IF 400 + UV internal lter includ-
ing lid can be installed without touching the hood. The
upper edge of the lter should be approximately 1 –
2 cm (0.4 – 0.8 in.) below the upper edge of the tank
(2.1).
2. Now hold the sera bioactive IF 400 + UV internal l-
ter to the aquarium glass from the outside and locate
the gluing area for the holder rail. Mark the installation
area on the outside of the aquarium with an overhead
marker or a grease pencil.
3. Lower the water level in the aquarium so far that the
marked area is completely dry. Allow an additional re-
serve of 5 cm (2 in.). Pull the mains plug of the heat-
er before lowering the water level.
4. Now remove the lime deposits on the area where the
holder rail is to be glued on using sera pH/KH-minus,
and clean it carefully with pure alcohol (not with ace-
tone!). Use kitchen roll paper or the like for both clean-
ing steps. Make sure that as little sera pH/KH-minus
and alcohol as possible runs into the aquarium. The
glass surface must be clean, dry and fat free after-
wards.
5. Also clean the side of the holder rail to be glued with
rubbing alcohol, or alcohol (not with acetone!).
6. Evenly distribute aquarium silicone to the assigned
zones of the holder rail.
7. Carefully glue the holder rail to the cleaned glass zone
(according to your mark), and press it on rmly. Make
sure the angle is directed upwards (2.3) and no ex-
cess glue drips into the aquarium. Fixate the holder
rail with plastic coated clamps and additionally sup-
port it with bars as to prevent it sliding down. A pos-
sibly occurring glue bulge must be removed immedi-
ately.
8. Let the glue dry for 24 hours and then remove the
clamps or bars. Remove the hood while doing so. Then
carefully clean the glass surfaces with plenty of wa-
ter, but without any detergents.
Operation
Equipping the lter baskets (3):
Equip the lter with mechanical, chemically-physically
absorbing or biological lter media. The kit includes sera
siporax mini Professional, which allows space for a
particularly high density of lter bacteria due to its func-
tional and ideal properties. sera lter biostart serves
for activating sera siporax mini Professional. The lter
baskets can be lled with lter media via the lateral cov-
er. Depending on the size of the lter medium used it
may be advisable to place the lter medium in a lter
media bag and then in a lter basket. Hold the lter bas-
ket tilted to the side for lling, and remove the cover (3.3).
Fill in the lter material and push the cover back on. Do
not overll the baskets, as closing and opening the cov-
er might become difcult otherwise (3.4).
Click the baskets one above the other (3.2) into the hold-
er rail, which allows you to simply push the baskets into
the casing of the sera bioactive IF 400 + UV internal
lter and pull them out again (3.1).
General advice for ltration through lter media:
For achieving ltration as efciently as possible as well
as operating time as long as possible, it is advisable to
place mechanical lter media in the upper baskets and
the biologically effective ones underneath. The lter me-
dia that clog rst can then be removed very quickly and
easily.
Optional use as a fast ow lter
There are aquarium applications concerning the elimina-
tion of large amounts of oating matter. The sera bioac-
tive IF 400 + UV internal lter may in this case be oper-
ated without lter baskets, and you can operate it with,
for instance, lter wool instead of equipped lter baskets.
If this is the case, the water will preferably enter the lter
chambers through the entire side of the lter and can be
taken up by the mechanical lter medium there (5.3).
Make sure to equip the lter symmetrically (5.2). In case
you use less than 6 baskets, it should be 2 or 4 of them
placed facing each other in the lter ducts. The entire
water agitation within the sera bioactive IF 400 + UV
internal lter is achieved by the sera lter and feed
pump FP 750.
Installing the sera UV-C System 5 W
For details, please refer to the separate information for
use.
Located on the pump, there is a hose (1.8) pushed on
that connects the sera UV-C System 5 W to the pump
underneath. Now push the UV-C lamp on and connect
the outlet to the sera current distributor with two mov-
able current nozzles (1.11) via the outlet adapter (1.10).
The current nozzles can be directed by bending (4.4)
according to the situation concerning the decoration in-
side the aquarium. In case of overstretching, the current
distributor segments will separate from each other, but
can be pushed back together again easily (4.5). In the
same way, segments of the Y shaped current distribu-
tor can also be removed from one side and inserted to
the opposite side as required (4.6).
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