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My dwarf puffer eats every snail he can. I put a big golden snail in there, easily 4 times his size and he still tried to eat it. He's eaten 4 mystery snails about the size of a dime each and all the eggs they laid.

Get yourself a dwarf puffer! They clean out snails faster than they can breed. I have one in my 10gal tank that I purposely stock with snails just to feed. He'll actually wait for the snail's eggs to mature to the point that you can just make out a shell, then he'll go around and do cleanup...

Thanks for the suggestion! I didn't even think about diluting the hard water with some distilled. That would probably do the trick, and I can just run the hose to the tank to fill it up. :D

I believe I'm stuck. I have two options available to me to fill my new tank, either the water from my water softener, or the extremely mineral laden HARD water from the tap. Any suggestions on what to do? I could buy water from the store, but the logistics of bringing home 50 gallons of water...