Sunshine Bait Tanks
1632 C BAIT TANK WITH TOP OPEN. NOTICE THE NEW TOP DESIGN, DOUBLE MACHINES TO HELP PREVENT SPLASHING AND ELIMINATES WING NUTS, NOTE THE LATCH AND SMOOTH TOP. NO MORE PANTS RIPPED AND NO WING NUTS TO KEEP UP WITH. ALL SIZES ARE MANFACTURED THIS WAY FOR 2007 MODELS
SKIMMER CENTER AND AIR PORT ON RIGHT
HOSE PLUGED INTO AIR PORT FOR TANK PUMP OUT
TOP CLOSED. NOTE.. RED ON LATCH INDICATING THAT LATCH IS LOCKED WHEN IN FORWARD POSITION
FILTER, SCALE BASKETS, AIR CONTROL CENTER, AND LATCH
MAKE SURE THAT THE WIRE WITH THE RED PAINT ON IT IS HOOKED TO YOUR POSITIVE LEAD, AS PUMP WILL RUN BACKWARD BUT DOES NOT AERIATE WHEN HOOKED UP INCORRECT. THE TWO PRONGED PLUG IS ONLY PARTIALLY ENGADED FOR DEMO PURPOSES IT SHOULD BE FULLY ENGAGED.
TOP OF 2032 TANK WITH ADDED REINFORCEMENT STRENGTH FOR TANKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE USED A SEAT. NOTE: NO PROTURING SCREWS TO CUT OR HANG PANTS OR WORSE ON.
I recommend placing rug grabber on bottom of tank so the tank will not slide around in boat.
New minnow tanks as of January 2008 SHOWN BELOW
Above shows the 460 GPH pump with aeration, control Air Valve,
and Filter basket before outer wall is welded in place.
Above shows Tank complete, dimensions of Tank are 24" long,
12" wide, and 13" tall. All dimensions are outside measurements.
Looking down in Filter compartment after outer wall has been
welded in place.
Handles (weight of tank filled with water is 74 pounds). A
strong man or two women can carry filled tank.
\
Picture shows Aeriation tube going along bottom for better air
distributing air and minimizing the current in bait well. Also
shows the two different Skimmers The one with the larger holes
is to be used when keeping Shad, lets the scales be removed.
Scale Basket to be used when keeping Shad.
I believe this small tank will maintain very well 30 3" to
3 1/2" shad, may even hold more but have not been able to personally
test. I would appreciate your feed back. I do recommend that you
use polyfill in Filter Basket for both Minnows and Shad.
All tanks are complete with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system.
A fused, 6 foot long power cable
is available for $5.00, complete
with a two prong quick connect and
eyelets for battery post.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can be retrofitted on my existing tanks.
Call for price.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can increase the
bait capacity of the tank by
60 %, and reduces scale loss
which means better bait.
Price List
Tanks shown above are oval configuration with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system as shown in 2nd picture.
Model
W
L
H
Gallons Bait Capacity
Price with Keep Alive
Oxygen Enhancer
Minnow Tank"
12"
24"
13"
9.5
30 Shad/30 doz minnows
$345.00
1624
16"
24"
18"
19
100 Shad
$412.00
1632c
16"
32"
22"
34
150 Shad
$495.00
2032c
20"
32"
22"
43
200 Shad
$520.00
c = Cast Tank, no seams, no welds.
Price List
Miscellaneous Items
Start Rite 16 oz bottle
$15.00
Replacement pump 460 GPH
$15.00
We accept
All above prices subject to change without notice.
Thank You!
You have just looked at / purchased one of the finest UV stable polyethylene
live bait tanks on the market.
Warning
Your tank will move and could hurt someone or
cause damage to your boat. We
strongly advise that you put some sort of mat on the
bottom (we use rug grabber, or
rug grabber) glued on the bottom of the tank.
As the saying goes, "There are many ways to skin a cat." The same
is true with keeping bait alive. Below we have listed some of the tried
ways we have found to work well over the years:
First Off
The pump is pre-wired. The positive lead is marked with red paint.
In the event you need to replace your pump, the brown wire from the new
pump should be connected to the positive lead (+) of
your battery or other 12Volt DC power source. The
black wire to the negative (-) lead. We recommend a 5 amp inline fuse
be installed as close to the power source as possible in the positive
(+) lead.
Filter
Your tank is equipped with a scale basket inserted in a filter basket.
The scale basket being the one with the screen material walls. The purpose
of the scale basket is to initially trap bait scales and other large objects
prior to the filter. The scale basket may need to be removed and washed out
more than once during a days fishing. One indicator being: If your water
level begins to rise in the bait compartment, it's a good bet your scale
basket needs to be pulled and washed out. And the filter material examined.
The actual filter material installs in the filter box below the scale
basket. For this purpose we use new poly fill on every recharge of the
tank (you can purchase poly fiber at local discount stores and sewing
stores. It is used as the fill for quilting.)
During a single fishing trip, it may be necessary to replace this poly
fill. Especially if you get your bait out of shallow water. Any time you
wash out your scale basket, examine the filter material. If it shows a
brownish darkening color, change it out.
Please, if you are on the water when you change this filter material,
store it on board for disposal later in a trash receptacle….Do not toss it
in the lake. A plastic zip lock bag makes a great container to store old poly fill.
Porous foam packing material can also be used as filter material in lieu
of poly fill.
Water Treatment
We charge our tank using tap water (city water) because especially during
the summer months the surface water on the lake often reaches 85 degrees and,
you would need to cool it prior to use. I like my water in the low 70's
and tap water allows me to initially get close to this temperature.
However, if you use tap water, you must use something to remove the
chlorine and chloramine. We recommend a product such as "Start Right" made
by Jungle Laboratories Corporation to do this. Use one teaspoon of "Start Right"
for every ten gallons of water. Hint: I use one of those plastic 35mm camera
film bottles as a measurement tool. This works well for tanks up to 40 gallons.
A bit too much is better than too little.
Salt is very important for shad. I use 26oz. of eiter Morton's Stock Salt or Non Iodines salt that can be bought in 26 oz. containers at Walmart (approx .33 cents).
a 40 gallon capacity tank. The main thing you want, is clean flakey,
non-iodinized salt. Rock salt and pellet salt is difficult to dissolve.
Note: If the nose of your bait gets red, this is a sign of stress. It's
a good indicator you may not be using enough salt.
One other thing you need to keep handy is a solution of foam kill. When
you mix salt, fish oil, and agitated water, you can have a foam develop on
top of your tank. A little squirt of foam kill should take care of this. Foam
Kill is commercially available at good bait shops, or it can be made by putting
a packet of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer in a small 4oz. plastic bottle.
Fill with water and shake it up to dissolve the creamer.
In the summer months, keeping a few 20oz. plastic pop bottle filled with
water and frozen can be used to cool the water if needed. This double wall
water insulated bait tank will need a minimum amount of additional cooling
if your initial charge of water is cool to begin with and the ambient
temperature is not extremely hot.
Water Level
Water level in the tank must be at least to the bottom of the scale
basket screen.
Air Adjustment
We have set the air intake valve, but you may need to make additional
adjustments with the salt added and dissolved good, and the pump running,
put your hand close to the "Bubble Port" and watch the bubbles
float up your arm. Turn the valve and you will notice a change.
The smaller the bubbles the better.
Hint: Shad for Bait
When using a cast net, do not dump fresh caught shad from the net directly
into your bait tank. Dump the content of your cast net into a holding bucket
full of lake water first. Best of all, this
holding bucket gives you a chance to use
your scoop net to pick the larger, better
looking baits and >discard the weaker
looking shad back into the lake, rather
than wasting tank space on poor quality
baits.
Draining Tank
Included in the tank is a short piece of ½" CPVC. Find an old discarded
garden hose, cut it to where it is long enough to reach from the bottom of your
bait tank out over the side of your boat and insert this piece of CPVC into one end.
When looking into the bait chamber portion of the tank, you will notice two
caps near the bottom on the filter side of the tank. The larger one nearest
the bottom is the water input port. The smaller one a bit higher up the wall
is the water output port, or "Bubble Port" from which the filtered water is
cycled back into the bait compartment. It is into the "Bubble Port" you
will want to insert this ½" piece of CPVC when you are ready to drain your
tank. Remove filter and scale basket. With the other end of the garden hose laid over side of the boat,
the pump in the bait tank will empty the tank water.
Hint: When I decide it's about time to go home, I put fresh bait down on
all of my rods. Then I take my bait scoop and liberally chum the water with
the remaining baits in the tank. You might save a few, because sometime
this chumming may excite the bite and you'll want to stay on the water a
little while longer.
Tank Maintenance
A solution of baking soda and water run through the pump will help remove
offensive odors. Do this occasionally.
After about 20 uses of the tank, I run a strong bleach water solution
through my pump and slosh it on the walls of the tank using a course hand brush.
After bleaching the tank and rinsing well, the next time I recharge the tank,
I use a double amount of "Start Right."
Hope this helps. Good luck, and Good fishing!!
Sunshine Tanks also makes "Made to Order" tanks.
February 17th, 2006.
This is a special "Made to Order Sunshine Bait Tank"
The over all size is 44 long 33 wide 31 inches tall,with 26"inches of water in the bait well.
The bait well has a capacity of 100 gallons, the overall capacity is 134
gallons. I put two pumps with infusers and put larger PVC fitting to handle
the water exchange. I ran the pumps over a hour and saw no loss of water
in the filter system. I designed the filter and scale basket to operate
with less than half the capacity if desired.
May 13th, 2006.
Leslie & Leslie Veres of Copperas Cove,TX with their new 150 gallon tank. Tank has dual 1100
GPH pumps and filter compartments. The bait well is 102 gal. and the tank measures 63" long, 33"
wide and 24" tall.
1632 C BAIT TANK WITH TOP OPEN. NOTICE THE NEW TOP DESIGN, DOUBLE MACHINES TO HELP PREVENT SPLASHING AND ELIMINATES WING NUTS, NOTE THE LATCH AND SMOOTH TOP. NO MORE PANTS RIPPED AND NO WING NUTS TO KEEP UP WITH. ALL SIZES ARE MANFACTURED THIS WAY FOR 2007 MODELS
SKIMMER CENTER AND AIR PORT ON RIGHT
HOSE PLUGED INTO AIR PORT FOR TANK PUMP OUT
TOP CLOSED. NOTE.. RED ON LATCH INDICATING THAT LATCH IS LOCKED WHEN IN FORWARD POSITION
FILTER, SCALE BASKETS, AIR CONTROL CENTER, AND LATCH
MAKE SURE THAT THE WIRE WITH THE RED PAINT ON IT IS HOOKED TO YOUR POSITIVE LEAD, AS PUMP WILL RUN BACKWARD BUT DOES NOT AERIATE WHEN HOOKED UP INCORRECT. THE TWO PRONGED PLUG IS ONLY PARTIALLY ENGADED FOR DEMO PURPOSES IT SHOULD BE FULLY ENGAGED.
TOP OF 2032 TANK WITH ADDED REINFORCEMENT STRENGTH FOR TANKS THAT ARE GOING TO BE USED A SEAT. NOTE: NO PROTURING SCREWS TO CUT OR HANG PANTS OR WORSE ON.
I recommend placing rug grabber on bottom of tank so the tank will not slide around in boat.
New minnow tanks as of January 2008 SHOWN BELOW
Above shows the 460 GPH pump with aeration, control Air Valve,
and Filter basket before outer wall is welded in place.
Above shows Tank complete, dimensions of Tank are 24" long,
12" wide, and 13" tall. All dimensions are outside measurements.
Looking down in Filter compartment after outer wall has been
welded in place.
Handles (weight of tank filled with water is 74 pounds). A
strong man or two women can carry filled tank.
\
Picture shows Aeriation tube going along bottom for better air
distributing air and minimizing the current in bait well. Also
shows the two different Skimmers The one with the larger holes
is to be used when keeping Shad, lets the scales be removed.
Scale Basket to be used when keeping Shad.
I believe this small tank will maintain very well 30 3" to
3 1/2" shad, may even hold more but have not been able to personally
test. I would appreciate your feed back. I do recommend that you
use polyfill in Filter Basket for both Minnows and Shad.
All tanks are complete with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system.
A fused, 6 foot long power cable
is available for $5.00, complete
with a two prong quick connect and
eyelets for battery post.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can be retrofitted on my existing tanks.
Call for price.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can increase the
bait capacity of the tank by
60 %, and reduces scale loss
which means better bait.
Price List
Tanks shown above are oval configuration with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system as shown in 2nd picture.
Model
W
L
H
Gallons Bait Capacity
Price with Keep Alive
Oxygen Enhancer
Minnow Tank"
12"
24"
13"
9.5
30 Shad/30 doz minnows
$345.00
1624
16"
24"
18"
19
100 Shad
$412.00
1632c
16"
32"
22"
34
150 Shad
$495.00
2032c
20"
32"
22"
43
200 Shad
$520.00
c = Cast Tank, no seams, no welds.
Price List
Miscellaneous Items
Start Rite 16 oz bottle
$15.00
Replacement pump 460 GPH
$15.00
We accept
All above prices subject to change without notice.
Thank You!
You have just looked at / purchased one of the finest UV stable polyethylene
live bait tanks on the market.
Warning
Your tank will move and could hurt someone or
cause damage to your boat. We
strongly advise that you put some sort of mat on the
bottom (we use rug grabber, or
rug grabber) glued on the bottom of the tank.
As the saying goes, "There are many ways to skin a cat." The same
is true with keeping bait alive. Below we have listed some of the tried
ways we have found to work well over the years:
First Off
The pump is pre-wired. The positive lead is marked with red paint.
In the event you need to replace your pump, the brown wire from the new
pump should be connected to the positive lead (+) of
your battery or other 12Volt DC power source. The
black wire to the negative (-) lead. We recommend a 5 amp inline fuse
be installed as close to the power source as possible in the positive
(+) lead.
Filter
Your tank is equipped with a scale basket inserted in a filter basket.
The scale basket being the one with the screen material walls. The purpose
of the scale basket is to initially trap bait scales and other large objects
prior to the filter. The scale basket may need to be removed and washed out
more than once during a days fishing. One indicator being: If your water
level begins to rise in the bait compartment, it's a good bet your scale
basket needs to be pulled and washed out. And the filter material examined.
The actual filter material installs in the filter box below the scale
basket. For this purpose we use new poly fill on every recharge of the
tank (you can purchase poly fiber at local discount stores and sewing
stores. It is used as the fill for quilting.)
During a single fishing trip, it may be necessary to replace this poly
fill. Especially if you get your bait out of shallow water. Any time you
wash out your scale basket, examine the filter material. If it shows a
brownish darkening color, change it out.
Please, if you are on the water when you change this filter material,
store it on board for disposal later in a trash receptacle….Do not toss it
in the lake. A plastic zip lock bag makes a great container to store old poly fill.
Porous foam packing material can also be used as filter material in lieu
of poly fill.
Water Treatment
We charge our tank using tap water (city water) because especially during
the summer months the surface water on the lake often reaches 85 degrees and,
you would need to cool it prior to use. I like my water in the low 70's
and tap water allows me to initially get close to this temperature.
However, if you use tap water, you must use something to remove the
chlorine and chloramine. We recommend a product such as "Start Right" made
by Jungle Laboratories Corporation to do this. Use one teaspoon of "Start Right"
for every ten gallons of water. Hint: I use one of those plastic 35mm camera
film bottles as a measurement tool. This works well for tanks up to 40 gallons.
A bit too much is better than too little.
Salt is very important for shad. I use 26oz. of eiter Morton's Stock Salt or Non Iodines salt that can be bought in 26 oz. containers at Walmart (approx .33 cents).
a 40 gallon capacity tank. The main thing you want, is clean flakey,
non-iodinized salt. Rock salt and pellet salt is difficult to dissolve.
Note: If the nose of your bait gets red, this is a sign of stress. It's
a good indicator you may not be using enough salt.
One other thing you need to keep handy is a solution of foam kill. When
you mix salt, fish oil, and agitated water, you can have a foam develop on
top of your tank. A little squirt of foam kill should take care of this. Foam
Kill is commercially available at good bait shops, or it can be made by putting
a packet of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer in a small 4oz. plastic bottle.
Fill with water and shake it up to dissolve the creamer.
In the summer months, keeping a few 20oz. plastic pop bottle filled with
water and frozen can be used to cool the water if needed. This double wall
water insulated bait tank will need a minimum amount of additional cooling
if your initial charge of water is cool to begin with and the ambient
temperature is not extremely hot.
Water Level
Water level in the tank must be at least to the bottom of the scale
basket screen.
Air Adjustment
We have set the air intake valve, but you may need to make additional
adjustments with the salt added and dissolved good, and the pump running,
put your hand close to the "Bubble Port" and watch the bubbles
float up your arm. Turn the valve and you will notice a change.
The smaller the bubbles the better.
Hint: Shad for Bait
When using a cast net, do not dump fresh caught shad from the net directly
into your bait tank. Dump the content of your cast net into a holding bucket
full of lake water first. Best of all, this
holding bucket gives you a chance to use
your scoop net to pick the larger, better
looking baits and >discard the weaker
looking shad back into the lake, rather
than wasting tank space on poor quality
baits.
Draining Tank
Included in the tank is a short piece of ½" CPVC. Find an old discarded
garden hose, cut it to where it is long enough to reach from the bottom of your
bait tank out over the side of your boat and insert this piece of CPVC into one end.
When looking into the bait chamber portion of the tank, you will notice two
caps near the bottom on the filter side of the tank. The larger one nearest
the bottom is the water input port. The smaller one a bit higher up the wall
is the water output port, or "Bubble Port" from which the filtered water is
cycled back into the bait compartment. It is into the "Bubble Port" you
will want to insert this ½" piece of CPVC when you are ready to drain your
tank. Remove filter and scale basket. With the other end of the garden hose laid over side of the boat,
the pump in the bait tank will empty the tank water.
Hint: When I decide it's about time to go home, I put fresh bait down on
all of my rods. Then I take my bait scoop and liberally chum the water with
the remaining baits in the tank. You might save a few, because sometime
this chumming may excite the bite and you'll want to stay on the water a
little while longer.
Tank Maintenance
A solution of baking soda and water run through the pump will help remove
offensive odors. Do this occasionally.
After about 20 uses of the tank, I run a strong bleach water solution
through my pump and slosh it on the walls of the tank using a course hand brush.
After bleaching the tank and rinsing well, the next time I recharge the tank,
I use a double amount of "Start Right."
Hope this helps. Good luck, and Good fishing!!
Sunshine Tanks also makes "Made to Order" tanks.
February 17th, 2006.
This is a special "Made to Order Sunshine Bait Tank"
The over all size is 44 long 33 wide 31 inches tall,with 26"inches of water in the bait well.
The bait well has a capacity of 100 gallons, the overall capacity is 134
gallons. I put two pumps with infusers and put larger PVC fitting to handle
the water exchange. I ran the pumps over a hour and saw no loss of water
in the filter system. I designed the filter and scale basket to operate
with less than half the capacity if desired.
May 13th, 2006.
Leslie & Leslie Veres of Copperas Cove,TX with their new 150 gallon tank. Tank has dual 1100
GPH pumps and filter compartments. The bait well is 102 gal. and the tank measures 63" long, 33"
wide and 24" tall.
Above shows the 460 GPH pump with aeration, control Air Valve,
and Filter basket before outer wall is welded in place.
Above shows Tank complete, dimensions of Tank are 24" long,
12" wide, and 13" tall. All dimensions are outside measurements.
Looking down in Filter compartment after outer wall has been
welded in place.
Handles (weight of tank filled with water is 74 pounds). A
strong man or two women can carry filled tank.
\
Picture shows Aeriation tube going along bottom for better air
distributing air and minimizing the current in bait well. Also
shows the two different Skimmers The one with the larger holes
is to be used when keeping Shad, lets the scales be removed.
Scale Basket to be used when keeping Shad.
I believe this small tank will maintain very well 30 3" to
3 1/2" shad, may even hold more but have not been able to personally
test. I would appreciate your feed back. I do recommend that you
use polyfill in Filter Basket for both Minnows and Shad.
All tanks are complete with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system.
A fused, 6 foot long power cable
is available for $5.00, complete
with a two prong quick connect and
eyelets for battery post.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can be retrofitted on my existing tanks.
Call for price.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can increase the
bait capacity of the tank by
60 %, and reduces scale loss
which means better bait.
Price List
Tanks shown above are oval configuration with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system as shown in 2nd picture.
Model
W
L
H
Gallons Bait Capacity
Price with Keep Alive
Oxygen Enhancer
Minnow Tank"
12"
24"
13"
9.5
30 Shad/30 doz minnows
$345.00
1624
16"
24"
18"
19
100 Shad
$412.00
1632c
16"
32"
22"
34
150 Shad
$495.00
2032c
20"
32"
22"
43
200 Shad
$520.00
c = Cast Tank, no seams, no welds.
Price List
Miscellaneous Items
Start Rite 16 oz bottle
$15.00
Replacement pump 460 GPH
$15.00
We accept
All above prices subject to change without notice.
Thank You!
You have just looked at / purchased one of the finest UV stable polyethylene
live bait tanks on the market.
Warning
Your tank will move and could hurt someone or
cause damage to your boat. We
strongly advise that you put some sort of mat on the
bottom (we use rug grabber, or
rug grabber) glued on the bottom of the tank.
As the saying goes, "There are many ways to skin a cat." The same
is true with keeping bait alive. Below we have listed some of the tried
ways we have found to work well over the years:
First Off
The pump is pre-wired. The positive lead is marked with red paint.
In the event you need to replace your pump, the brown wire from the new
pump should be connected to the positive lead (+) of
your battery or other 12Volt DC power source. The
black wire to the negative (-) lead. We recommend a 5 amp inline fuse
be installed as close to the power source as possible in the positive
(+) lead.
Filter
Your tank is equipped with a scale basket inserted in a filter basket.
The scale basket being the one with the screen material walls. The purpose
of the scale basket is to initially trap bait scales and other large objects
prior to the filter. The scale basket may need to be removed and washed out
more than once during a days fishing. One indicator being: If your water
level begins to rise in the bait compartment, it's a good bet your scale
basket needs to be pulled and washed out. And the filter material examined.
The actual filter material installs in the filter box below the scale
basket. For this purpose we use new poly fill on every recharge of the
tank (you can purchase poly fiber at local discount stores and sewing
stores. It is used as the fill for quilting.)
During a single fishing trip, it may be necessary to replace this poly
fill. Especially if you get your bait out of shallow water. Any time you
wash out your scale basket, examine the filter material. If it shows a
brownish darkening color, change it out.
Please, if you are on the water when you change this filter material,
store it on board for disposal later in a trash receptacle….Do not toss it
in the lake. A plastic zip lock bag makes a great container to store old poly fill.
Porous foam packing material can also be used as filter material in lieu
of poly fill.
Water Treatment
We charge our tank using tap water (city water) because especially during
the summer months the surface water on the lake often reaches 85 degrees and,
you would need to cool it prior to use. I like my water in the low 70's
and tap water allows me to initially get close to this temperature.
However, if you use tap water, you must use something to remove the
chlorine and chloramine. We recommend a product such as "Start Right" made
by Jungle Laboratories Corporation to do this. Use one teaspoon of "Start Right"
for every ten gallons of water. Hint: I use one of those plastic 35mm camera
film bottles as a measurement tool. This works well for tanks up to 40 gallons.
A bit too much is better than too little.
Salt is very important for shad. I use 26oz. of eiter Morton's Stock Salt or Non Iodines salt that can be bought in 26 oz. containers at Walmart (approx .33 cents).
a 40 gallon capacity tank. The main thing you want, is clean flakey,
non-iodinized salt. Rock salt and pellet salt is difficult to dissolve.
Note: If the nose of your bait gets red, this is a sign of stress. It's
a good indicator you may not be using enough salt.
One other thing you need to keep handy is a solution of foam kill. When
you mix salt, fish oil, and agitated water, you can have a foam develop on
top of your tank. A little squirt of foam kill should take care of this. Foam
Kill is commercially available at good bait shops, or it can be made by putting
a packet of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer in a small 4oz. plastic bottle.
Fill with water and shake it up to dissolve the creamer.
In the summer months, keeping a few 20oz. plastic pop bottle filled with
water and frozen can be used to cool the water if needed. This double wall
water insulated bait tank will need a minimum amount of additional cooling
if your initial charge of water is cool to begin with and the ambient
temperature is not extremely hot.
Water Level
Water level in the tank must be at least to the bottom of the scale
basket screen.
Air Adjustment
We have set the air intake valve, but you may need to make additional
adjustments with the salt added and dissolved good, and the pump running,
put your hand close to the "Bubble Port" and watch the bubbles
float up your arm. Turn the valve and you will notice a change.
The smaller the bubbles the better.
Hint: Shad for Bait
When using a cast net, do not dump fresh caught shad from the net directly
into your bait tank. Dump the content of your cast net into a holding bucket
full of lake water first. Best of all, this
holding bucket gives you a chance to use
your scoop net to pick the larger, better
looking baits and >discard the weaker
looking shad back into the lake, rather
than wasting tank space on poor quality
baits.
Draining Tank
Included in the tank is a short piece of ½" CPVC. Find an old discarded
garden hose, cut it to where it is long enough to reach from the bottom of your
bait tank out over the side of your boat and insert this piece of CPVC into one end.
When looking into the bait chamber portion of the tank, you will notice two
caps near the bottom on the filter side of the tank. The larger one nearest
the bottom is the water input port. The smaller one a bit higher up the wall
is the water output port, or "Bubble Port" from which the filtered water is
cycled back into the bait compartment. It is into the "Bubble Port" you
will want to insert this ½" piece of CPVC when you are ready to drain your
tank. Remove filter and scale basket. With the other end of the garden hose laid over side of the boat,
the pump in the bait tank will empty the tank water.
Hint: When I decide it's about time to go home, I put fresh bait down on
all of my rods. Then I take my bait scoop and liberally chum the water with
the remaining baits in the tank. You might save a few, because sometime
this chumming may excite the bite and you'll want to stay on the water a
little while longer.
Tank Maintenance
A solution of baking soda and water run through the pump will help remove
offensive odors. Do this occasionally.
After about 20 uses of the tank, I run a strong bleach water solution
through my pump and slosh it on the walls of the tank using a course hand brush.
After bleaching the tank and rinsing well, the next time I recharge the tank,
I use a double amount of "Start Right."
Hope this helps. Good luck, and Good fishing!!
Sunshine Tanks also makes "Made to Order" tanks.
February 17th, 2006.
This is a special "Made to Order Sunshine Bait Tank"
The over all size is 44 long 33 wide 31 inches tall,with 26"inches of water in the bait well.
The bait well has a capacity of 100 gallons, the overall capacity is 134
gallons. I put two pumps with infusers and put larger PVC fitting to handle
the water exchange. I ran the pumps over a hour and saw no loss of water
in the filter system. I designed the filter and scale basket to operate
with less than half the capacity if desired.
May 13th, 2006.
Leslie & Leslie Veres of Copperas Cove,TX with their new 150 gallon tank. Tank has dual 1100
GPH pumps and filter compartments. The bait well is 102 gal. and the tank measures 63" long, 33"
wide and 24" tall.
All tanks are complete with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system.
A fused, 6 foot long power cable
is available for $5.00, complete
with a two prong quick connect and
eyelets for battery post.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can be retrofitted on my existing tanks.
Call for price.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can increase the
bait capacity of the tank by
60 %, and reduces scale loss
which means better bait.
All tanks are complete with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system.
A fused, 6 foot long power cable
is available for $5.00, complete
with a two prong quick connect and
eyelets for battery post.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can be retrofitted on my existing tanks.
Call for price.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system
can increase the bait capacity of the tank by
60 %, and reduces scale loss
which means better bait.
Price List
Tanks shown above are oval configuration with
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system as shown in 2nd picture.
Keep Alive Oxygen Enhancer system as shown in 2nd picture.
Oxygen Enhancer
Price List
Miscellaneous Items
Thank You!
You have just looked at / purchased one of the finest UV stable polyethylene
live bait tanks on the market.
Warning
Your tank will move and could hurt someone or
cause damage to your boat. We
strongly advise that you put some sort of mat on the
bottom (we use rug grabber, or
rug grabber) glued on the bottom of the tank.
As the saying goes, "There are many ways to skin a cat." The same
is true with keeping bait alive. Below we have listed some of the tried
ways we have found to work well over the years:
First Off
The pump is pre-wired. The positive lead is marked with red paint.
In the event you need to replace your pump, the brown wire from the new
pump should be connected to the positive lead (+) of
your battery or other 12Volt DC power source. The
black wire to the negative (-) lead. We recommend a 5 amp inline fuse
be installed as close to the power source as possible in the positive
(+) lead.
Filter
Your tank is equipped with a scale basket inserted in a filter basket.
The scale basket being the one with the screen material walls. The purpose
of the scale basket is to initially trap bait scales and other large objects
prior to the filter. The scale basket may need to be removed and washed out
more than once during a days fishing. One indicator being: If your water
level begins to rise in the bait compartment, it's a good bet your scale
basket needs to be pulled and washed out. And the filter material examined.
The actual filter material installs in the filter box below the scale
basket. For this purpose we use new poly fill on every recharge of the
tank (you can purchase poly fiber at local discount stores and sewing
stores. It is used as the fill for quilting.)
During a single fishing trip, it may be necessary to replace this poly
fill. Especially if you get your bait out of shallow water. Any time you
wash out your scale basket, examine the filter material. If it shows a
brownish darkening color, change it out.
Please, if you are on the water when you change this filter material,
store it on board for disposal later in a trash receptacle….Do not toss it
in the lake. A plastic zip lock bag makes a great container to store old poly fill.
Porous foam packing material can also be used as filter material in lieu
of poly fill.
Water Treatment
We charge our tank using tap water (city water) because especially during
the summer months the surface water on the lake often reaches 85 degrees and,
you would need to cool it prior to use. I like my water in the low 70's
and tap water allows me to initially get close to this temperature.
However, if you use tap water, you must use something to remove the
chlorine and chloramine. We recommend a product such as "Start Right" made
by Jungle Laboratories Corporation to do this. Use one teaspoon of "Start Right"
for every ten gallons of water. Hint: I use one of those plastic 35mm camera
film bottles as a measurement tool. This works well for tanks up to 40 gallons.
A bit too much is better than too little.
Salt is very important for shad. I use 26oz. of eiter Morton's Stock Salt or Non Iodines salt that can be bought in 26 oz. containers at Walmart (approx .33 cents).
a 40 gallon capacity tank. The main thing you want, is clean flakey,
non-iodinized salt. Rock salt and pellet salt is difficult to dissolve.
Note: If the nose of your bait gets red, this is a sign of stress. It's
a good indicator you may not be using enough salt.
One other thing you need to keep handy is a solution of foam kill. When
you mix salt, fish oil, and agitated water, you can have a foam develop on
top of your tank. A little squirt of foam kill should take care of this. Foam
Kill is commercially available at good bait shops, or it can be made by putting
a packet of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer in a small 4oz. plastic bottle.
Fill with water and shake it up to dissolve the creamer.
In the summer months, keeping a few 20oz. plastic pop bottle filled with
water and frozen can be used to cool the water if needed. This double wall
water insulated bait tank will need a minimum amount of additional cooling
if your initial charge of water is cool to begin with and the ambient
temperature is not extremely hot.
Water Level
Water level in the tank must be at least to the bottom of the scale
basket screen.
Air Adjustment
We have set the air intake valve, but you may need to make additional
adjustments with the salt added and dissolved good, and the pump running,
put your hand close to the "Bubble Port" and watch the bubbles
float up your arm. Turn the valve and you will notice a change.
The smaller the bubbles the better.
Hint: Shad for Bait
When using a cast net, do not dump fresh caught shad from the net directly
into your bait tank. Dump the content of your cast net into a holding bucket
full of lake water first. Best of all, this
holding bucket gives you a chance to use
your scoop net to pick the larger, better
looking baits and >discard the weaker
looking shad back into the lake, rather
than wasting tank space on poor quality
baits.
Draining Tank
Included in the tank is a short piece of ½" CPVC. Find an old discarded
garden hose, cut it to where it is long enough to reach from the bottom of your
bait tank out over the side of your boat and insert this piece of CPVC into one end.
When looking into the bait chamber portion of the tank, you will notice two
caps near the bottom on the filter side of the tank. The larger one nearest
the bottom is the water input port. The smaller one a bit higher up the wall
is the water output port, or "Bubble Port" from which the filtered water is
cycled back into the bait compartment. It is into the "Bubble Port" you
will want to insert this ½" piece of CPVC when you are ready to drain your
tank. Remove filter and scale basket. With the other end of the garden hose laid over side of the boat,
the pump in the bait tank will empty the tank water.
Hint: When I decide it's about time to go home, I put fresh bait down on
all of my rods. Then I take my bait scoop and liberally chum the water with
the remaining baits in the tank. You might save a few, because sometime
this chumming may excite the bite and you'll want to stay on the water a
little while longer.
Tank Maintenance
A solution of baking soda and water run through the pump will help remove
offensive odors. Do this occasionally.
After about 20 uses of the tank, I run a strong bleach water solution
through my pump and slosh it on the walls of the tank using a course hand brush.
After bleaching the tank and rinsing well, the next time I recharge the tank,
I use a double amount of "Start Right."
Hope this helps. Good luck, and Good fishing!!
Sunshine Tanks also makes "Made to Order" tanks.
February 17th, 2006.
This is a special "Made to Order Sunshine Bait Tank"
The over all size is 44 long 33 wide 31 inches tall,with 26"inches of water in the bait well.
The bait well has a capacity of 100 gallons, the overall capacity is 134
gallons. I put two pumps with infusers and put larger PVC fitting to handle
the water exchange. I ran the pumps over a hour and saw no loss of water
in the filter system. I designed the filter and scale basket to operate
with less than half the capacity if desired.
May 13th, 2006.
Leslie & Leslie Veres of Copperas Cove,TX with their new 150 gallon tank. Tank has dual 1100
GPH pumps and filter compartments. The bait well is 102 gal. and the tank measures 63" long, 33"
wide and 24" tall.
Thank You!
You have just looked at / purchased one of the finest UV stable polyethylene
live bait tanks on the market.
Warning
Your tank will move and could hurt someone or
cause damage to your boat. We
strongly advise that you put some sort of mat on the
bottom (we use rug grabber, or
rug grabber) glued on the bottom of the tank.
As the saying goes, "There are many ways to skin a cat." The same
is true with keeping bait alive. Below we have listed some of the tried
ways we have found to work well over the years:
First Off
The pump is pre-wired. The positive lead is marked with red paint.
In the event you need to replace your pump, the brown wire from the new
pump should be connected to the positive lead (+) of
your battery or other 12Volt DC power source. The
black wire to the negative (-) lead. We recommend a 5 amp inline fuse
be installed as close to the power source as possible in the positive
(+) lead.
Filter
Your tank is equipped with a scale basket inserted in a filter basket.
The scale basket being the one with the screen material walls. The purpose
of the scale basket is to initially trap bait scales and other large objects
prior to the filter. The scale basket may need to be removed and washed out
more than once during a days fishing. One indicator being: If your water
level begins to rise in the bait compartment, it's a good bet your scale
basket needs to be pulled and washed out. And the filter material examined.
The actual filter material installs in the filter box below the scale
basket. For this purpose we use new poly fill on every recharge of the
tank (you can purchase poly fiber at local discount stores and sewing
stores. It is used as the fill for quilting.)
During a single fishing trip, it may be necessary to replace this poly
fill. Especially if you get your bait out of shallow water. Any time you
wash out your scale basket, examine the filter material. If it shows a
brownish darkening color, change it out.
Please, if you are on the water when you change this filter material,
store it on board for disposal later in a trash receptacle….Do not toss it
in the lake. A plastic zip lock bag makes a great container to store old poly fill.
Porous foam packing material can also be used as filter material in lieu
of poly fill.
Water Treatment
We charge our tank using tap water (city water) because especially during
the summer months the surface water on the lake often reaches 85 degrees and,
you would need to cool it prior to use. I like my water in the low 70's
and tap water allows me to initially get close to this temperature.
However, if you use tap water, you must use something to remove the
chlorine and chloramine. We recommend a product such as "Start Right" made
by Jungle Laboratories Corporation to do this. Use one teaspoon of "Start Right"
for every ten gallons of water. Hint: I use one of those plastic 35mm camera
film bottles as a measurement tool. This works well for tanks up to 40 gallons.
A bit too much is better than too little.
Salt is very important for shad. I use 26oz. of eiter Morton's Stock Salt or Non Iodines salt that can be bought in 26 oz. containers at Walmart (approx .33 cents).
a 40 gallon capacity tank. The main thing you want, is clean flakey,
non-iodinized salt. Rock salt and pellet salt is difficult to dissolve.
Note: If the nose of your bait gets red, this is a sign of stress. It's
a good indicator you may not be using enough salt.
One other thing you need to keep handy is a solution of foam kill. When
you mix salt, fish oil, and agitated water, you can have a foam develop on
top of your tank. A little squirt of foam kill should take care of this. Foam
Kill is commercially available at good bait shops, or it can be made by putting
a packet of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer in a small 4oz. plastic bottle.
Fill with water and shake it up to dissolve the creamer.
In the summer months, keeping a few 20oz. plastic pop bottle filled with
water and frozen can be used to cool the water if needed. This double wall
water insulated bait tank will need a minimum amount of additional cooling
if your initial charge of water is cool to begin with and the ambient
temperature is not extremely hot.
Water Level
Water level in the tank must be at least to the bottom of the scale
basket screen.
Air Adjustment
We have set the air intake valve, but you may need to make additional
adjustments with the salt added and dissolved good, and the pump running,
put your hand close to the "Bubble Port" and watch the bubbles
float up your arm. Turn the valve and you will notice a change.
The smaller the bubbles the better.
Hint: Shad for Bait
When using a cast net, do not dump fresh caught shad from the net directly
into your bait tank. Dump the content of your cast net into a holding bucket
full of lake water first. Best of all, this
holding bucket gives you a chance to use
your scoop net to pick the larger, better
looking baits and >discard the weaker
looking shad back into the lake, rather
than wasting tank space on poor quality
baits.
Draining Tank
Included in the tank is a short piece of ½" CPVC. Find an old discarded
garden hose, cut it to where it is long enough to reach from the bottom of your
bait tank out over the side of your boat and insert this piece of CPVC into one end.
When looking into the bait chamber portion of the tank, you will notice two
caps near the bottom on the filter side of the tank. The larger one nearest
the bottom is the water input port. The smaller one a bit higher up the wall
is the water output port, or "Bubble Port" from which the filtered water is
cycled back into the bait compartment. It is into the "Bubble Port" you
will want to insert this ½" piece of CPVC when you are ready to drain your
tank. Remove filter and scale basket. With the other end of the garden hose laid over side of the boat,
the pump in the bait tank will empty the tank water.
Hint: When I decide it's about time to go home, I put fresh bait down on
all of my rods. Then I take my bait scoop and liberally chum the water with
the remaining baits in the tank. You might save a few, because sometime
this chumming may excite the bite and you'll want to stay on the water a
little while longer.
Tank Maintenance
A solution of baking soda and water run through the pump will help remove
offensive odors. Do this occasionally.
After about 20 uses of the tank, I run a strong bleach water solution
through my pump and slosh it on the walls of the tank using a course hand brush.
After bleaching the tank and rinsing well, the next time I recharge the tank,
I use a double amount of "Start Right."
Hope this helps. Good luck, and Good fishing!!
Sunshine Tanks also makes "Made to Order" tanks.
February 17th, 2006.
This is a special "Made to Order Sunshine Bait Tank"
The over all size is 44 long 33 wide 31 inches tall,with 26"inches of water in the bait well.
The bait well has a capacity of 100 gallons, the overall capacity is 134
gallons. I put two pumps with infusers and put larger PVC fitting to handle
the water exchange. I ran the pumps over a hour and saw no loss of water
in the filter system. I designed the filter and scale basket to operate
with less than half the capacity if desired.
May 13th, 2006.
Leslie & Leslie Veres of Copperas Cove,TX with their new 150 gallon tank. Tank has dual 1100
GPH pumps and filter compartments. The bait well is 102 gal. and the tank measures 63" long, 33"
wide and 24" tall.
Your tank will move and could hurt someone or
cause damage to your boat. We
strongly advise that you put some sort of mat on the
bottom (we use rug grabber, or
rug grabber) glued on the bottom of the tank.
As the saying goes, "There are many ways to skin a cat." The same
is true with keeping bait alive. Below we have listed some of the tried
ways we have found to work well over the years:
First Off
The pump is pre-wired. The positive lead is marked with red paint.
In the event you need to replace your pump, the brown wire from the new
pump should be connected to the positive lead (+) of
your battery or other 12Volt DC power source. The
black wire to the negative (-) lead. We recommend a 5 amp inline fuse
be installed as close to the power source as possible in the positive (+) lead.
Filter
Your tank is equipped with a scale basket inserted in a filter basket.
The scale basket being the one with the screen material walls. The purpose
of the scale basket is to initially trap bait scales and other large objects
prior to the filter. The scale basket may need to be removed and washed out
more than once during a days fishing. One indicator being: If your water
level begins to rise in the bait compartment, it's a good bet your scale
basket needs to be pulled and washed out. And the filter material examined.
The actual filter material installs in the filter box below the scale
basket. For this purpose we use new poly fill on every recharge of the
tank (you can purchase poly fiber at local discount stores and sewing
stores. It is used as the fill for quilting.)
During a single fishing trip, it may be necessary to replace this poly
fill. Especially if you get your bait out of shallow water. Any time you
wash out your scale basket, examine the filter material. If it shows a
brownish darkening color, change it out.
Please, if you are on the water when you change this filter material,
store it on board for disposal later in a trash receptacle….Do not toss it
in the lake. A plastic zip lock bag makes a great container to store old poly fill.
Porous foam packing material can also be used as filter material in lieu
of poly fill.
Water Treatment
We charge our tank using tap water (city water) because especially during
the summer months the surface water on the lake often reaches 85 degrees and,
you would need to cool it prior to use. I like my water in the low 70's
and tap water allows me to initially get close to this temperature.
However, if you use tap water, you must use something to remove the
chlorine and chloramine. We recommend a product such as "Start Right" made
by Jungle Laboratories Corporation to do this. Use one teaspoon of "Start Right"
for every ten gallons of water. Hint: I use one of those plastic 35mm camera
film bottles as a measurement tool. This works well for tanks up to 40 gallons.
A bit too much is better than too little.
Salt is very important for shad. I use 26oz. of eiter Morton's Stock Salt or Non Iodines salt that can be bought in 26 oz. containers at Walmart (approx .33 cents).
a 40 gallon capacity tank. The main thing you want, is clean flakey,
non-iodinized salt. Rock salt and pellet salt is difficult to dissolve.
Note: If the nose of your bait gets red, this is a sign of stress. It's
a good indicator you may not be using enough salt.
One other thing you need to keep handy is a solution of foam kill. When
you mix salt, fish oil, and agitated water, you can have a foam develop on
top of your tank. A little squirt of foam kill should take care of this. Foam
Kill is commercially available at good bait shops, or it can be made by putting
a packet of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer in a small 4oz. plastic bottle.
Fill with water and shake it up to dissolve the creamer.
In the summer months, keeping a few 20oz. plastic pop bottle filled with
water and frozen can be used to cool the water if needed. This double wall
water insulated bait tank will need a minimum amount of additional cooling
if your initial charge of water is cool to begin with and the ambient
temperature is not extremely hot.
Water Level
Water level in the tank must be at least to the bottom of the scale
basket screen.
Air Adjustment
We have set the air intake valve, but you may need to make additional
adjustments with the salt added and dissolved good, and the pump running,
put your hand close to the "Bubble Port" and watch the bubbles
float up your arm. Turn the valve and you will notice a change.
The smaller the bubbles the better.
Hint: Shad for Bait
When using a cast net, do not dump fresh caught shad from the net directly
into your bait tank. Dump the content of your cast net into a holding bucket
full of lake water first. Best of all, this
holding bucket gives you a chance to use
your scoop net to pick the larger, better
looking baits and >discard the weaker
looking shad back into the lake, rather
than wasting tank space on poor quality
baits.
Draining Tank
Included in the tank is a short piece of ½" CPVC. Find an old discarded
garden hose, cut it to where it is long enough to reach from the bottom of your
bait tank out over the side of your boat and insert this piece of CPVC into one end.
When looking into the bait chamber portion of the tank, you will notice two
caps near the bottom on the filter side of the tank. The larger one nearest
the bottom is the water input port. The smaller one a bit higher up the wall
is the water output port, or "Bubble Port" from which the filtered water is
cycled back into the bait compartment. It is into the "Bubble Port" you
will want to insert this ½" piece of CPVC when you are ready to drain your
tank. Remove filter and scale basket. With the other end of the garden hose laid over side of the boat,
the pump in the bait tank will empty the tank water.
Hint: When I decide it's about time to go home, I put fresh bait down on
all of my rods. Then I take my bait scoop and liberally chum the water with
the remaining baits in the tank. You might save a few, because sometime
this chumming may excite the bite and you'll want to stay on the water a
little while longer.
Tank Maintenance
A solution of baking soda and water run through the pump will help remove
offensive odors. Do this occasionally.
After about 20 uses of the tank, I run a strong bleach water solution
through my pump and slosh it on the walls of the tank using a course hand brush.
After bleaching the tank and rinsing well, the next time I recharge the tank,
I use a double amount of "Start Right."
Hope this helps. Good luck, and Good fishing!!
Sunshine Tanks also makes "Made to Order" tanks.
February 17th, 2006.
This is a special "Made to Order Sunshine Bait Tank"
The over all size is 44 long 33 wide 31 inches tall,with 26"inches of water in the bait well.
The bait well has a capacity of 100 gallons, the overall capacity is 134
gallons. I put two pumps with infusers and put larger PVC fitting to handle
the water exchange. I ran the pumps over a hour and saw no loss of water
in the filter system. I designed the filter and scale basket to operate
with less than half the capacity if desired.
May 13th, 2006.
Leslie & Leslie Veres of Copperas Cove,TX with their new 150 gallon tank. Tank has dual 1100
GPH pumps and filter compartments. The bait well is 102 gal. and the tank measures 63" long, 33"
wide and 24" tall.
February 17th, 2006.
This is a special "Made to Order Sunshine Bait Tank"
The over all size is 44 long 33 wide 31 inches tall,with 26"inches of water in the bait well.
The bait well has a capacity of 100 gallons, the overall capacity is 134
gallons. I put two pumps with infusers and put larger PVC fitting to handle
the water exchange. I ran the pumps over a hour and saw no loss of water
in the filter system. I designed the filter and scale basket to operate
with less than half the capacity if desired.
May 13th, 2006.
Leslie & Leslie Veres of Copperas Cove,TX with their new 150 gallon tank. Tank has dual 1100
GPH pumps and filter compartments. The bait well is 102 gal. and the tank measures 63" long, 33"
wide and 24" tall.