Hi, all! I recently was given a 10 gallon tank with two bunches of aquatic plants and a baggie of what are supposed to be red cherry shrimp. (ID questions about those later!) Today I got a Marineland 100B HOB filter. I had to modify it a little so that it all fit together correctly; basically I didn't put on the extender or the adjustable intake because they were too long for the aquarium. It's all been together & running for about two hours and the water is noticeably clearer. The only problem I'm seeing is that a large amount of little plants are sticking to the filter intake. I don't know how to fix this.

Is there an inexpensive way to address this problem? Thanks in advance!!