JellyFish

Does anyone know anything about keeping them or has anyone kept them. I am starting the research to make this a possible project. I have filteration up to 500 gallons available. I am building a filter system to run my 220 the 100 sump for it and then still have the overhead for up to 500 gallons on top of it. I will be tieing the systems together only through the filter but will have 2 different systems. Skimmer is being custom built as we speak and remote system is being installed into the seperate room for the 220 but its next to a wall I want to put a jelly tank. I would consider a few cuttlefish as my second choice. I do understand these are hard to keep and I am doing all I can to learn and will not put anything in the second tank until I understand them completly. Please anyone with imput shoot me some info.

 

your going jelly? that should be awesome. I have no idea about them but im probably gonna start a seahorse, pipefish, low light softy LPS tank soon

 

Jellyfish require a special round tank called a Kreisel. They get stuck in the corners of square/rectangular tanks. They also require a lot of live plankton to eat. They are neat animals but IMO, they are a royal pain to keep.

 

I have seen the tanks. I do have plenty of food for them but I thought if I modified the corners of a 180 to not be square inside it then maybe this might work. I would like a 6 ft tank. I looked at the round tanks they start at 12k. I might go cuttlefish for this reason but I have a friend in hawaii that will send me moon jellies for free so im all about making a bad tank but again will not do it unless I know its possible.

 

I have had 2 pipefish and they are tough. I only had small ones but eating was there issue. I just want something different. We have a thearter in our basement not like a big movie thearter just a room made for watching tv that has the filteration right behind the wall for the 220 I wanted something not to bright when we are there as there are no windows in the room as it was made for the projection that pulls down on the wall and meant to be dark and loud. I just dont want to be blinded and jellys glowing while we are there sounds pretty excellent.

 

IIRC cuttlefish require lower temperatures than a reef system. That would require a separate filtration systems.

 

Thanks you. I was hoping for something different. I can do diferent filters I just wanted to combine it all. I have a huge skimmer for my system so I hoped I could make it work.

 

maybe you could do cuttlefish in one tank and an octo in the other?

 

The 220 is already a well established reef tank with lots of coral and fish. Makes it tough to do that.