Small particulates get sucked up easily but larger things get sucked up against the prefilter . Every week or so I just pull the intake tube off of the filter and rinse it off , which takes a few minutes . I prefer doing this much , much more than spending 45 minutes trying to pick shrimplets out of the canister when cleaning the filter . P <| sep |> I ended up ordering it online this morning . Very excited , I really wanted one . <| sep |> Some of us despite taking it seriously don ' t do the whole I make spreadsheets 12 hours a week thing . Bully for you if you do just sayin . <| sep |> I started dating my wife in college . I ' d had the same pin for years . One day she asked to borrow some money , and I swear on my life I couldn ' t remember it . She thought I was doing it on purpose . My brain just blanked it . Two days later , I remembered it completely out of the blue .