hi i was wondering if i could get some opinions on whether or not i should purchase jellyfish for my tank. i currently have a reef and fish tank setup and my LFS has some interesting blue jellyfish in stock and was wondering what people experiences were with keeping some of them. appreciate any advice, thank you
blue jellyfish
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RicksReefs
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I'm betting it was a Cassiopeia upside-down jelly.
jellies will not do well in a reef tank. they'll be beat to death on the rocks. they need a sandy, refugium type set up with reef lighting to live.
but even then, they generally don't survive long term.
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=16+2158+2215&aid=2119
jellies will not do well in a reef tank. they'll be beat to death on the rocks. they need a sandy, refugium type set up with reef lighting to live.
but even then, they generally don't survive long term.
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=16+2158+2215&aid=2119
RicksReefs
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coloration varies, but if it was sitting on the bottom, upside down, (and looked healthy otherwise) then it was likely a Cassiopeia jelly.
any other species has almost no hope of survival for the average hobbyist as they're free swimming, non-photosynthetic, predators that shouldn't touch anything solid. public aquariums use special round kregal tanks and directed flow to keep them from bumping into the sides.
any other species has almost no hope of survival for the average hobbyist as they're free swimming, non-photosynthetic, predators that shouldn't touch anything solid. public aquariums use special round kregal tanks and directed flow to keep them from bumping into the sides.
I was posting to agree w/ what Ricks said (except to say that the tanks are called kreisels), then I found a site that mentioned that there is another jellyfish species that is sometimes available in the trade, Catostylus mosaicus, common name the Blue Bubbler. I have never seen one before.
This seemed like a good jellyfish website: http://jellieszone.com/captivejellies.htm
This seemed like a good jellyfish website: http://jellieszone.com/captivejellies.htm
i think it might be that blue bubbler one that Elysia mentioned.. it is a free flowing jellyfish but it's not predatory. the guys at the shop said that it was photosynthetic breed and they do not sting. my friend had one in his tank but it died but never stung any of the other tank occupants. i really wanted to get one because they look so neat in the tank but i don't want mine to die..
truebeliever71
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Magikarp... I too am looking into jelllyfish keeping. There is an article in a quarterly magazine (sorry the name escapes me right now) about it. But I think it leaves more questions than it gives answers.
"LA Fishguys" have several videos about jellyfish keeping: http://www.youtube.com/user/lafishguy
