I needed a prefilter so I made one. If anyone needs ideas, this worked well(so far). I have a mag drive pump to my filter/water fall. I had a hard time to find a pvc pipe that also fit the basket with some clearance. I found a tetra pre-filter and modified it for my needs.
Parts:
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1.5" clear hose
pvc fitting
gutter guard
- I cut a hole in the top of the pre-made tetra pre-filter with a 2.75 hole saw, then a little filing until the basket could fit into it easily to removed for cleaning.
- Grinded down the bottom tube. The inlet on the bottom/inside of the pre-filter was too high for my liking, so I dremled it lower.
- cut down a peice of the gutter guard to simi-permintly seal the inlet to the pump so no debre that the pump can not handle will get suck in the inlet of the pump.
- found a pvc fitting to fit the outlet of the pre-filter and connect it with clear tubing to my mag drive pump.