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.

A Jellyfish "Combo" Tank

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium they held jellyfish in large holding tanks. Sometimes they get creative and try different types of jellyfish together that are from the same place as shown here:

I just love the idea of having a tank with more than one jellyfish. So I decided to take on this challenge for myself.

This is the tank. It is a 20 gallon tank with my first 5 upside down jellies and my cleaner snail. I'm enjoying the tank so far. It is really big and the jellies love it. I'm also getting 10 more upside down jellies in the mail in the next day or so. At the same day I will pick up more cleaner snails. Then I will work on getting lagoon jellies and blubber jellyfish. I've never kept either of these types before. Lagoon jellies are positive to get along with upside down jellies, but the variable here is the blubber jellyfish. Blubber jellies and lagoon jellies will get along together so I am hoping upside downs will get along too. Like Thomas Knowles says, have fun and be creative! If this does not work out, I'll get rid of the blubbers and keep just the two types of jellies left. Although I am nearly positive they will all get along with each other.

Major Moon Tank Crash

So my moons were doing very good, and swimming good. Two days later, they looked like they were getting eaten alive. The ammonia had rapidly climbed to 7ppm, very deadly reading for any fish or jellyfish. I quickly moved them to my coldwater tank. However, I was too late for one of my favorite warm waters Yoshi, he was alive but not pulsing ever. The other warm water was inverting the other day, but it back to normal. Trio, my 3 circled jelly, has lost his oral arms due to the spike in bad water. It looks like he is growing them back, but I would not be sure. Yoshi was let go this weekend into the ocean. I hope he will continue his life there and recover.

I have other news as well. My upside down jelly newborns were gone when I woke up the other day. I new it is pretty impossible to do it right on the first time. I tried my best, but sadly it did not work out too well.

More happy news now...
I am almost done building my huge 20 gallon tropical combo tank. Just needs water.
Also, I have tons of these new type of jellyfish. They invaded into my system somehow. They are making more, now I have about 20. I'm selling them on Thinkjellyfish.com now for 5 dollars. They get along with my upside downs.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Jellyfish- Behind The Scenes

I was very privileged to be able to go the the Monterey Bay Aquarium this weekend and check out behind the scenes at the Jellies experience. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has 25 types of jellies- the largest collection of live jellies in the world! The whole trip was a blast, it was the best and coolest setups I've ever seen! I was totally blown away by what I saw.
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                                     Special Thanks to Thomas Knowles for making this possible! 

                                    Picture: Thomas feeding the lagoon jellies

Sea Nettles For Sale!

I am proud to announce that Sea Nettles are now available on me and Travis Brandwood's site, thinkjellyfish.webs.com. We will also have a tank for them, it is currently in testing. The full name for them is the Atlantic Sea Nettle, they are wild caught, healthy and ready to ship.
                                                                 
                                                                    Our stock photo:

The tank in testing:

My Jellyfish Aquariums

This is my first post here (obviously) and I thought I would show my Jellyfish tank setups.

1. Thinkjellyfish.webs.com Upside Down Jellyfish Tank

This aquarium is 6.6 gallons, has a bright daylight bulb and
five upside down jellies living in it, all happy and healthy.

Video:

2. Moon Jellyfish Tank

Six gallons, 8 healthy and happy Moon Jellies living in it, 6 coldwater, 2 warmwater.

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3. Polyp Tank

About 40 polyps, mixed upside down jellies and moon jellies. 

About 1.25 gallons

Future projects:

4. Upside down Jellyfish/ Lagoon Jellyfish combo tank

Since lagoon jellyfsh and upside down jellyfish both get

along and live in cube aquariums, I will make a 20 gallon

combo tank to keep both types in.

5. Sea Nettle Aquarium

20-30 gallon aquarium to keep Sea Nettles in.

6. Mini Ephyra Aquarium

If it works I will make two, one for upside down jellies and one for moon jellies.

Well that is all my setups and hopefully future setups!