Great answers, except for ...

I will stay away from a Sicce as no local to me vendors carry them.
There are NO Eden dealers in the whole of North America, but you have Sicce available right here ;) any local dealer has access to spares

What I was eluding to here is I can buy an Eheim pump body locally, if mine fails, and transfer the volute and impeller

Not the same body sorry, as I understand it they only share the same motor block internally.

http://cdn.bulkreefsupply.com/media/...m-Pump-b_1.jpg

Hmmm, you may have something there
I was assuming the Eheim would work because the OP used an Eden pump

I have an Eheim 2000 running my chiller. I'll have to compare it to the ES next time I strip down the skimmer
Being stubborn, I may find a way to make it fit :rolleyes:

So, is there a vendor closer to us West Coasters than Concept ?

would be great if you could.

One of the biggest reasons we went OEM with Skimz only using their bodies was due to the pump, we found the sicce far outperformed and we did not have warranty issues.

So the SK became the CSC and as they say the rest is history ;)

when we get the mod kits in I will offer up one to you for evaluating the differences.

Sounds good to me :wink:
Anything to improve nog production would be a plus

Quick update on nog production
75g DT, 110g total volume and a light bio-load

This was 1 hour after a cup cleaning

http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...d/DSC01614.jpg

This is 4 days worth
Keep in mind I was feeding frozen twice daily due to a finicky fish, so production was down significantly

http://i749.photobucket.com/albums/x...d/DSC01616.jpg

It'll be nice to see what improvement there is with the new CSC retrokit when it's available