On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:23:00 -0500, "Koi-Lo" wrote:

When I used a prefilter back when I bought this pump it clogged constantly.
It was too much work pulling up the pump with it's heavy prefilters to hose
them off.

You need a pre-filter before the bio-filter (out of the pond) not what is
wrapped around the pump, or anything more in-the-pond.

My husband thinks we need a filter with
a larger surface area.

Yup, that too. ~ jan
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