CO2 systems - no matter welche- or activate an additional supply of CO2 can also generally completely avoid if you just called simply chooses to be maintained or undemanding plants that require no additional CO2 - even under these numerous varieties can be found very decorative plants and fish, it is not matter anyway.
More important than the actual avoidable CO2 supply is in well-planted tank rather an installed under the ground floor floodlights (weak floor heating - 10 Watt -), but not to heat the pool, but only to stimulate the circulation of water in the ground, which the plant growth and the Mulmabbau promotes - recommended is the "JBL ProTemp b10". The substrate should just then - so with Bodenfluter - but also more generally from a 3-4 cm layer soil (recommended is tropical laterite granules of "Dupla" or "amtra" mixed with 1/3 of the actual gravel) and 4-5 cm gravel (dark brown or matt black, rounded, 2-3 mm grain size) are made - not using a finer or coarser gravel and certainly no sand, there Bodenfluter then can not function. Heller ground stresses the fish and looks cheesy colored or unnaturally. Add to that a really effective and fertilizer system, eg "filtAS" -Langzeitdünger in net bag and then put the basket in the top of the external filter, enough for two or three months depending on whether T5 / T8 LED or lighting. A continuous fertilization is more advantageous than intermittent admit on certain days fertilizer. Then klappt`s well with the greens.