jellyfish tank info?

[Steverino]

anyone know of a thread or website on keeping a jellyfish tank? Minimum size, recommended species, feeding, parameters, etc? I saw one on vacation and started wondering if it could be done at home.........

 

[Bubbashrimp]

Hows this?

http://www.jelliquarium.com/
http://www.masla.com/jellyfish.html

 

[philbo32]

I have successfully cultured jellyfish in my marine aquarium you can even see the polyps and the buds occasionally you can watch the jellyfish in the buds about to hatch so to speak. I will try to post pictures of the polyps soon but they are very small. Here are a few pictures of a baby and some of the adult jellyfish that were in my aquarium last year:

 

[philbo32]

After looking at that jellyquarium thing, it looks almost like a washing machine lol!..

 

[Bubbashrimp]

Is that the upside down jellyfish? I have also kept a upside down jellyfish in a regular aquarium as well, but I believe that the thread starter wanted something more. The jellyaquarium thing is called a kriesel. This is a special kind of tank for delicate organizms who would otherwise find themselves injured by running into the wall of a regular aquarium.

 

[philbo32]

Yeah, I think it is an upside down jellyfish from characteristics. I didn't buy these jellyfish, the polyps were on the living rock and they appeared about 18 months after the rock was purchased. by reducing the flow in the aquarium more and more survived and grew. I've had up to about 11 jellyfish at once in the aquarium but usually you only se 2 or 3. You can even see the young jellyfish about to hatch pulsating in the polyp bud.

 

[Bubbashrimp]

Thats got to feel good or at least make your live rock purchase feel like a good one.

 

[Steverino]

I was wondereing if they could be in a reef tank, or if they needed to be in a species tank, either with or without live rock. I have a tank that I was considering switching over to either a frag tank or else a clown/anemone tank, and recently I became interested in the jellyfish idea after seeing one at Seaworld.

 

[philbo32]

At christmas I brought a large bubble tip anemone and I think it tried to eat one of the jellyfish as about thre days later one of the larger jellyfish went missing and the anemone sudenly retracted and died. They were fine with the clownfish and royal gramma. When less than approx. 2cm (bell diameter) they spent most of the time near the surface of the tank photosynthesizing. When bigger than 2cm they seemed to swim into the sides and the bottom.

 

[Steverino]

I read that they like colder water? What kind of jellyfish did you have?

 

[philbo32]

My tanks at around ca.80°F, so tropical, the jellyfish are upside down jellies. The temperature must be correct for them as the jelyfish are continually produced from a colony of polyps in the tank.