Aqueon Aquarium Filter 10 Intake Tube

I was cleaning my filter and took off the little intake tube and tried to clean it and then it just broke in my hand becoming so brittle from about 6 years of use. So I designed up something a bit better than what you get in the box. I noticed that my snails in the tank would get stuck in the intake and get killed by the filter so I made the bottom section really big to make the intake of water more spread out and made the gaps larger for stuff like food actually get picked up by the filter.