Well good news, after around a week the filter became almost "dead-silent" . I can hear it only if I get my face right right next to it, otherwise I can't even tell it's running apart from the water flow in the tank.
So apart from that issue I had in the beginning, I see no problem with the...
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Hello,
I bought my first canister filter because I was tired of cleaning my small internal filters every week and people said they were really quiet.
I got a Tetra EX 1000 filter from my local fish store.
However, I was a bit disappointed with the sound...