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Get rid of the piece of crap filter and go spend 20 or 30 dollars on acua clear 20 or 30.

Sorry to be mean, but those filters are garbage

No mention was made of the brand of filter the OP was/is using.
While perhap's not liked by a few, or many,,they do what they were designed to do.(proper sized for volume of water).
I used these type' s of filter's for nearly 30 year's and managed just fine thank you.
Is no such filter as the one you noted ,did you mean Aquaclear?

 

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In the long run he'll be saving money by not replacing filters every three months or so because these filters fall apart when cleaning them after months of abuse
Hes better off with a sponge filter that will last for years.


There was a miss typo from me ,yes i meant to say aqua clear .

What filter's are you referring to that fall apart after three month's?Even cheap aquatech's(walmart) run much longer than this.
I have used nearly all of the popular HOB filter's, and most will last much longer than three month's with proper cleaning,care.
Would agree that the Aquaclear's are perhap's the best HOB filter's nowday's.
Hydro series sponge filter's are also hard to beat, but the trouble is finding air pump's to power them that don't make too much noise for tank's in bedroom's .
Course you can run the sponge filter's with powerhead's but perhap's that is another topic.