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My oldest child played with my mag float, one glass thermometer shattered, pieces of the metal from the weight in the thermometer trapped in between the magnets, he then scraped that around th front of the tank, scratching the ever living snot out of the glass.

Thanks, my dad and I designed the original pond a few years ago, when I moved out of state it started having problems and my dad gave up and let the pond die. When I moved back i wanted to get it going again for him because it was an eyesore in his back yard, just a big pond shaped hole full of...

Should of be good, the rule I've heard is 5gallon per dwarf puffer. I have a 20 with 2 in it and they stay away from each other. They won't school. They destroy snails though.

Now that I've seen my own pic up here, I don't look like I thought I looked like either.

The farthest north I've lived is Indianapolis and that was enough cold for me to come back to Nashville and stay

Well some snails don't need two, but if you found a tiny one on a plant you brought home, chances are there's more already

That's why I have too keep adding them too, the puffers won't let them breed for long and if they find the eggs they eat them too.

I personally like snails and consider them to be benificial and keep them in almost every tank. That being said some snail species populations can get out of control quickly and I usually have some sort of population control measure in place. Something like assassin snails, or loaches.

I add anywhere from 5-20. I try to get a couple larger ones that will have a chance to reproduce in the tank and a bunch of little tiny ones. It's super easy to find them in the pond. Under lily pads, all over the 10ft long anacharis plants, pretty much everywhere I look in the pond.

I feed most tanks once a day skipping one day a week usually. I feed fry as many times as I can buy usually ends up being once because of my busy schedule. The dwarf puffer tank I add snails once a week. One benefit of having the pond, all the snails I could want.

Have you added water, test your source water. If it was me, I would change water to get the ammonia down, then dose again to test the system.

I have to say, nobody looks like I thought they did. Here's me and my youngest little clayman,

Anything left?

Since you used sand, which is inert, you will need root tabs for the root feeders. You don't need a nutrient rich sub if you use root tabs.