Well I went to my LFS today to buy a protein skimmer, and the owner told me about how my new Fluval 404 was a piece of garbage, he then suggested the wet dry filter with protien skimmer,so I bought it ( he had the Aqua c for like 189, the combo was like 230 so for the extra 50 bucks I went for it) Right now I am running both filter systems..... I just was looking for some feed back for the pros here....