"NetMax" wrote in message
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Hagen does sell AquaClear parts through dealers, but the cost of a housing
would be the same as a new filter. Beware of the small plastic tab which
is pressed into the bottom of the filter to act as a spacer. On early
smaller models, this tab would fall off, and the filter would angle
backwards slightly. Ordinarily not a problem, except if the sponge rode
up (from clogging a bit), and now the water finds an easier path down the
back of the filter, emptying half the tank (until the waterline reached
the intake).

* Yep! I had that happen with a mini. :-) I have a clothes-pin behind
that filter to keep it level until someday I get off my lazy backside and
hot-glue something permanent to the thing.

Most of us here know that sinking feeling of hearing a splash when you
walk into a room ;~).

* Or walk into a cold wet puddle. :-() aaarggghhh!
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