Polyps, More Polyps!

In case you don't know what a polyp is, it is basically a jellyfish making machine. The polyp is a big part of the jellyfish life cycle, as the video shows here:












The polyp is sexually produced by two jellies and the polyp then makes baby jellyfish asexually when the right conditions are present. As odd is it is, the polyp never becomes a jellyfish itself.

I have seen polyps (and baby jellyfish!) in my tank before, but I have had a little bit of a outbreak in the amount of polyps I have. Hopefuly I can give some of these to Travis Brandwood so he can raise them to sell on Thinkjellyfish!

Upside Down Jelly Baby!

I was sitting down on my laptop looking at my upside down jellies. I saw something super small and moving. At first I thought it was just a shrimp, but sure enough it was a baby upside down jellyfish. It is already 3-5 weeks old and I did not notice it until now. It is a very healthy little guy.


Video comming soon!

Upside Down Jelly Problem

My upside down's jellyfish water turned pure green, so I put in the "GREEN KILLING MACHINE" to help clear the water. Several months and a no longer green tank later a jelly got sucked up. He was my favorite jellyfish and swam around almost all the time. I was very dissapointed to see he died. We live we learn, as a thinkjellyfish customer once told me.

The GREEN KILLING MACHINE gets rid of cruddy green water in aquariums.

The GREEN KILLING MACHINE

 

Upside Down Jellyfish

Baby Moon Jellies From France + More Updates

I got a shipment a few weeks ago of some baby moon jellyfish from France. They were about the size of a quarter when I got them, and they are growing like nuts. I have three of them, in with some moons from the San Francisco area bay. The ones get along with the San Francisco Moons, even though they are around 30 times bigger :)
I also got some hermit crabs and snails from Jellyfish Art- AWESOME for jellyhome tanks from thinkjellyfish. Those little guys clean up the tank even better than a water change could do. My gravel is sparkling clean!

   Now here are the differences in the moon jellies. The Jellyfish in the blue backround is the San       Francisco moon jellyfish, and the 2nd picture is a French moon jellyfish.

Babies!!!

I have a run-down jellyfish tank that had a few moons die it it and they left some poylps. Just when I thought the poylps were never going to make baby jellyfish I saw one little lone ephyrae swimming around. They are moon jellyfish ones. After a little search, I found about 19 of them. I though together a little tank for them and they are doing pretty good. They are very active, and very tuff guys too to survive the conditions in the old jellyfish tank. Well they did it, and they are in a nice clean tank now it good hands! I've never had to much luck with newborn jellies, but I'm wishing myself luck!

Updates, Updates!

Even more things have been going on with my jelly keeping recently. Here is the news:

 Upside Down Jellies

I ended up getting my 10 upside downs, and they are GREAT. They are doing great, but for some reason not as great for the past few days. I'm on the case, and what I'm seeing so far is that my heater broke and the water temp went down to a freezing 62 degrees, not a ideal tropical temp which could bring stress to the jellies since they are tropical. The company I bought the heater from sent me a new one, so I'm just going to try to keep them as warm as I can without the heater. The lighting is working out very well, but to make it even brighter I might add one more.

                                Californian ThinkJellyfish Moon Jellies

I got myself 4 moon jellies and a ThinkJellyfish JellyHome Moon Jellyfish Tank. These little guys are doing fantastic. However I can't call them little guys. These guys are HUGE and very healthy. The tank is working out very well for them, and the jellies are fairly active, but fully active at night. I have a RGB color changing bulb from ThinkJellyfish as well installed in there and it really brings out the beauty of this tank even more. The jellies are always suspended in the tank, which is nice. They never touch the bottom unless they swim into it actively. Video of these guys coming soon!

Well that is pretty much it! More updates coming next week hopefully along with some pictures and videos.

Major Update

So a lot of things have been happening with my Jellyfish keeping. If you look at my post before this, you can see my old 20 gallon combo tank. I did try this tank, and it was a disaster, however one I learned from. The 10 jellies came OK, but three were injured. Those died off without me knowing and it brought my ammonia up from a 0ppm to a 8ppm in just 4 days. The super powerful 8ppm of ammonia burned all my jellies and cleaner snails alive. I had a different type of gravel last time, and it was live pre-cycled sand. It did not work as the 8ppm tells me. It was sad cleaning out the tank, thinking of all the animals that died and when I may have done wrong. I know now, but that does not mean I gave up.

    After cleaning the tank, I decided to trade in the old 20 gallon high the 20 gallon long instead. The reason I chose this tank is because I decided that I was going to care for upside downs in this tank only, and make a different tank for other types like blubber and lagoon jellies. I did not just change the tank. I changed the gravel as well. The gravel used to be live sand, like explained above but it failed horribly. I went for a different type this time and found the perfect stuff. It is like these little pebbles and they are smooth. I made it nice and flat as well. I also upgraded the lighting to something a big more expensive. I chose reef sun 50/50 as it is a very good bulb for animals like the upside down jelly that need a certain type of lighting. The bulb I had last was a daylight bulb, but was not the right type of lighting for what the jellies needed. I'm exited for this tank, and I hope I will learn alot from it and not mess up! The jellies arrive this week.