Yesterday, after spending hours messing with my magnum 350, I got annoyed and decided to just get a new canister. I was going to try and go a little bit cheap with the filter but unsurprisingly I got to the fish store and decided to go big with a new fluval 406. Then, even less surprising, I seen 2 36" fluval LED light panels and had to buy them. Needless to say after originally going to buy a cheap filter for around 100, I ended up spending over $300 on lights and a filter. Though, I did get a steal on the lights. They were about $120 each and I got both for around $100! I finally got fed up with my Magnum 350. These filters are one of the worst products I have ever bought. The year that I've had it has been spent trying to get it to work properly. The housing for this filter is like 6 centimeters thick and has broken from the impeller bouncing around in it, spilling multiple gallons of water on the carpet before I got home from work and realized what was going on, I hate these filters. Which sucks because all other Marineland products are great, just not these particular filters. The 406, which was only about $50 more than the 350, is beautiful. This thing is sleek, a solid build, that is so fool proof it's hard to get it wrong.
So I got home from work and was messing with my 350 for a while. I go spend way too much money and I get home to set it up. That whole day was spent entirely on my equipment, so I hadn't even looked in my tank but briefly. My friend was over checking out the tank when he says to me "dude you've got eggs!" I didn't believe him. I've had these fish in this tank for a week, but he was right! One of my mammons laid eggs. I noticed the past couple of days two of my mammons had cleared out a spot and had their breeding colors on, but I still thought they were to young and I wasn't sure I had a female. It looks like the two mammons paired up, but unfortunately these eggs don't have much of a future right now. Even if the Texas I have were big enough to spawn, the male mammon is being a good partner and nothing gets near those eggs. We all know that it's very unlikely the male mammon will be fertile. So I'm sure nothing will come of these eggs but at least I know with certainty that I have a proven female, the first and most important step in my red texas project! Here's some pics of my mammons, I'm sorry the texas haven't changed a whole lot but are growing and doing well. It's hard to see the eggs on the wood because they are almost the same color and they're in a strange spot. Also these are my girlfriends pictures she took. Ironically some of these pictures she was taking with a fish eye lens.
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. One delivery person was bringing me my gold kamfa I just paid about $200 for including shipping, I was supposed to sign for this package obviously. I watch him get out run up to my front door and toss the box like 4 feet onto the porch and run off. I freaked out, though I was a lot more pleasant than i should have been. I asked him if he realized that this package required a signature and that if the box claims there is a wild animal in the box why in God's name would he toss it like that. Since then It's become a hobby of mine to spy on UPS. 
