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I have had a Sunburst for 2 weeks. Mine wouldn't eat frozen either.

What it WOULD eat was live brine. Have you tried live brine? I think it's worth a shot to try baby brine though. Try to get some live brine too.

I got my sunburst eating frozen after a few days. I unthawed some of SWF's(saltwater fanta-seas) Gumbo, and the gumdrops, and mixed in some live brine(less each feeding) and after 3 feedings, he is now weaned off of live.

This is one of my favorite fish.

Hopefully he's eating some of the critters in your tank.

Definitely worthy of PoTM! I got to see it w/my own eyes. That dude was feelin the luv for a good 5-10 minutes.

No problem.

The tank had to be up against the wall when I had it. It also worked out really well for the closed loop, as there were no extra fittings on the intake side of the closed loop. Just a nice bend of spa-flex(this was key). The 2 1" bulks(CL return) only had a 1.5" Tee, and 2 1.5" 90's necked down to 1". On the inside of the tank the bulks were teed again and necked down to 3/4"MPT for 3/4" locline one each side. 4 loclines pointed on the bottom of that tank made some great flow with currents bouncing off of all panes. It made some really good eddies.

There wasn't much that would stay planted to the bottom anyway, and I had 2 eggcrate platforms so the bottom 3 inches of the tank didn't matter much.

The sump drain standpipe didn't bother me as it was black ABS. I had green star polyps growing up it;)

That being said, it's always possible to just patch the holes & drill the back, or do an external overflow, but this setup was "custom"(Bow)

oops, The leftmost 1" b/h was the return from the sump. On that I used a 12" length of 1" pvc from the bottom, 90'd & reduced to a 3/4" locline.

Ryan,

I had an Ampmaster 3000 for the closed loop, and a Mag 12 for return. I don't know what you want to propagate, but that setup had perfect flow for SPS.

Sorry I don't have any pics, but basically the rightmost 2 1"b/h's were Tee'd together with a 1.5" Tee and I used 3/4" locline in the tank. The feed for the intake was just 1.5" flex pvc straight to the pump.

The drain to the sump was 1.5" cut down to about 12" from the bottom. I didn't get any gurgling with the drain setup that way, it pushed about 800GPH to the sump. It could have handled more flow, but it may gurgle with more GPH.

If I were you I would set it up the way I did, but I'm biased LOL! You're gonna love that tank once you get it going.

Feel free to ask anymore questions.

lol!

That IS my old tank.

(sad) The way I had it setup before was as follows.

From left to right, THe 1.5" b/h was sump drain, basically a 1.5" standpipe. The 1" next to it was the sump return standpipe. the next 2 1" B/h's were closed loop outputs, and the last 1.5" B/H was the intake for the closed loop.

It was "custom" LOL

I wish I still had that tank.

Hey mike! Nice to see you back.

Awesome! Cute lil guys.

AWESOME!

Ditto on the sponge! I also recognize the fungia. You're lucky you got there before I did. Man, you got a smokin' deal on that

I need to get Austin over here to get some shots of my tank.

What chiller, size tank, sump size, and return pump are you using?

My flame angel thinks he's a Tang LOL.

He picks at the filamentous algeas on my LR all day long, and any new fish that is added he tries to bully as a tang would. He even does this little "tail swipe" at the new fish for about a day but never does much if any harm.

I have 2 clams, and plenty of LPS/softies and he hasn't bothered a thing.

One of my favorite fish.

I haven't used the TUNZE products yet, but my next SPS tank will have a closed loop and a stream with a controller.

I used to have a 4x2x2 BB with an ampmaster3000 hooked up to 2 1" seaswirls with 1000gph for the sump return.

The way I had the tank planned out was to have ALOT of flow in the upper and mid column of water. Unfortunately, I didn't think about the BB tank needs, and I ended up having to do more manual removal of detritus off the tank bottom.

If I redid that tank again, I would have the closed loop returns ALL bounce off the bottom of the tank, and put a stream or 2 in the mid water column.

The seaswirls were not as great as I had hoped.

They'll pester your snails to death. It will take some time but it will happen. It took me about 3 months to eradicate them from my old system. I had to pull snails and scrub them in a separate container and discard the water. They also bothered my clams, even though they never got to proportions big enough to harm them, as I cleaned them about 2x a week.

You definitely want to get rid of them if they're like the ones I had. Mine looked just like the ones you posted.

Careful! Those look like the dreaded pyramidellid snails.

http://www.reefland.com/rho/2006/05/identify_rissoid_pyramidellid_snails.php

Nice tank BTW, I had one exactly like it.

With the open top like that and lumenarcs, 400 watters will be fine. Especially the way the tank is set up.

I have always had GREAT success with peppermints. I have never had a BAD peppermint either.

IMO, the trick to get peppermints to eat them is to not feed the tank for at least a week after adding the pepps.

It's an "aquired" taste. lol