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Has anyone seen those little Jelly Fish in Clear Lake that glow a flourescent green... I was wondering if you could put those in a Salt Water tank? Sometimes they glow pretty bright in the water. There are tons of them in the water where I live, in Seabrook.
 
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You could always try for a nice little experiment.. But I would try it in a refuge or something first...
 
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Thats a good Idea... I'll probably give that a try.

Thanks
 
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Why do they need a round tank? Do they like swim into a corner and get stuck? Sounds like you may have tried this before.
Have you seen these at night, they are really cool... They light up like fire flies. I took a friend out shrimping last week and he saw them for the first time, and was totally amazed. He took one home in a bucket to show his wife. Everytime he would touch it, it would light up.
I thought it would look awesome in a tank, especially at night...
 
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There is an article in the Aquarium Fish mag that talks about upside-down jellies. Jellies have low survival in cornered tanks, this is why you will see them in a circular tank or flowing in a circle at public aquariums.
 
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Yep and circular tank fools them into thinking that they are in a much larger area then they are in.
 
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A circular tank keeps them on the move, so they dont get stuck in a corner.
 
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Last weekend, City Pets had jellyfish listed on their clam and sea slug tank, but didn't see anything I recognized as a jellyfish.

There were some little white squiggly lines on the side of the tank. Could that have been them?

Has anyone else seen them? Tell us how your experiment works out.
 
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No, City Pets has them sometimes, if you see it, you'll know it.
Problem is they gets stuck against the overflow on the clam tank.
 
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I believe the jellies you are talking about are ctenophorans and not cnidarians. From what I understand is that most ctenophorans under go a vertical migration nightly to feed but I don't know much about these guys, I just call them sea snot. I would also think that they would need a longer acclimation time, more like an echinoderm.
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I saw one jellyfish at City Pets this weekend. It was just pulsing upside down in the sand. I second the circular tank comment, it was the only way we kept them alive at the Shedd, besides what kind of life is it for the jellyfish to pulse upside down all day?
 
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Fish Ranch had some of those upside-down jellies two weeks ago. They didn't look really happy, just sporadically and lifelessly waving/pulsing. Pretty sad.
 
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