Red JellyFish

[kevinlarry]

Hi My neighbor gave me a red jellyfish and I'm not to sure what to do with it.

Knowing that I've been keeping marine fishes he gave me this, which he got from a canal somewhere.

right now I have a 110 gallon tank which has only a coral banded shrimp and a cleaner shrimp inside because all my fishes are in the QT tank for copper treatment of ich.

What do I feed?

What Intensity of lighting does it need?

[graveyardworm]

Did it come from tropical waters? Jelly fish are not known for being powerful swimmers I would be concerned that it will easily be pulled into a powerhead or overflow and blended with your tank water. It probably eats small fish or large plankton. I'm not sure about lighting, but I think thats the least of your worries here.

Jellyfish are best housed in species specific tanks.

[Stipe]

They cannot swim that well. THey can push themselves (some species) by inverting thier body adn pushing again. Almsot 100% of them requires the current to move them during migration season to follow plankton etc. Yes lighting would be the least of your worries as stated by graveyardworm.

[MrZ]

The Boston aquarium has a nice tank set up for jellyfish. It is a large spherical tank with extremely gentle tumbling current. The water itself had quite a few bright orange specks in it - guessing they feed cyclopeeze.

I agree that jellyfish puree would probably be the end result of putting one in a reef tank with powerheads or an overflow.

[supernareg]

jellyfish arent photosynthetic, so no worries about light. feed it very small piece of krill / silverslides / shrimp / octoupus, and meaty foods...


needless to say, DONT FEED WITH YOUR HANDS< IT MAY KILL YOU (pending on if ur allergic and what not) but they sting like a b!tch so feed it with tongs.

[soondubu]

i'd love to set up a jellyfish tank though :)


any ideas on where to start looking?

http://www.wtfdiaf.com/thai/thai 431.jpg

[Putawaywet]

These animals are definitely an anvanced species only tank type of subject as they will require very specialized equipment and husbandry techniques not normally used in the reef hobby.

http://www.jellyfishtank.com/

Also, without identifying the exact species you are dealing with it is very difficult to say what you should or should not feed it.

Some do in fact eat krill or smaller fish, but many others feed on much smaller plankton such as newly hatched brine shrimp. Some select species actually feed on other jellies.

My advice is to find out where your neighbor collected it and promptly return it to whence it came.

Brett

[scchase]

Yep you have a huge uphill battle and learnign curve to keep a jelly but just for fun here is a pic of one I took
http://myspace-036.vo.llnwd.net/00522/63/07/522447036_l.jpg