Leor Amikam wrote:
Thanks for all the help. What is "GW"? Also, I use the Python cleaner that
you attach to the sink, and then I suck up the gravel into the
tube and let it settle. I do this each time I do a water change. No
lighting changes has occurred - I have two compact fluorescent
10w lamps. My air stones are clean and I get a good stream of bubbles. I
will try the partial water change daily and see how that works.




"GW" as referred to by spiral_72 means green water. It's tiny,
free-floating suspended algae that makes the water a greenish cloudy
colour.

20 watts of fluorescent lighting in a 10 gallon aquarium is ideal for
plants! However, I'd expect some algae problems with this much light and
no plants.

You could buy some hornwort, water sprite or other inexpensive and fast
growing plants, and see if that helps reduce your algae. Certainly the
plants should grow well! If you do this, buy enough plants to
immediately spread out throughout the aquarium. Both plants I mentioned
are free-floating, but other good plants for you might be smaller
Vallisneria, inexpensive Rotala, Hygrophelia, Java Moss and the list
goes on. Just make sure you're getting true aquatic plants and not
water-tolerant houseplants (not so common in stores now).

Instead of adding plants you could reduce the light. You could even turn
off the light and just use room lighting. If the algae all die off from
lack of light then they'll decompose, requiring temporary, frequent
water changing to compensate.

Good luck!
Steve