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The MACI framework

MACI AQUARIUM

An aquarium does not need you to do more. It needs to gain capacity.

Learn to build, understand, and turn around living aquariums without turning them into a chain of cleanings, products, and rescues.

Start from your real situation

Three paths. One clear criterion.

You do not need to understand all of MACI at once. Choose the entry that matches your aquarium today.

01

Something is going wrong

Dying fish, cloudy water, algae, damaged plants, or values that do not explain what is happening.

Browse by problem

02

I want to build or turn around

Build an aquarium with plants, margin, and internal capacity before depending on constant corrections.

Choose the right book

03

I want to understand MACI

Discover why MACI reads an aquarium as a living system rather than a maintenance routine.

Understand the framework

The right entry depends on your moment

Two books for a practical start

Cover of MACI — The Easy-to-Run Manual

Build or turn around

MACI — The Easy-to-Run Manual

The practical entry for building a stable aquarium or restoring margin to the one you already have.

See Easy-to-Run

Cover of the Aquarium Diagnostic Manual

Read before acting

Aquarium Diagnostic Manual

For when something is failing and you need to separate symptom, process, and decision.

See the manual

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Open Beta · Free · 1 aquarium · 11 official languages · multilingual chat

MACI Guardian

Your aquarium, with memory.

Talk with the context of your aquarium, preserve its history, record measurements and events, see progress in graphs, analyse images, and use deterministic calculators.

  • Public registration is open during the Beta.
  • Free account: one aquarium.
  • Image generation: up to 5 per day; AI features remain subject to Beta capacity.
MACI Guardian conversation interpreting the recorded history of an aquarium
Conversation grounded in the aquarium’s real context and history.
Aquarium pH progress chart in MACI Guardian
Measurements and progress made visible through graphs.
MACI Guardian deterministic water-change calculator
Deterministic calculators for concrete decisions.

Try Guardian for free

Time, observation, and real systems

The framework is grounded in aquariums that keep working.

MACI evidence shows continuity, biological margin, and system response. These are not recipes to copy: they are cases that teach you how to read.

See real aquariums