Desktop...Jellyfish Tank...

I thought you were joking...guess not. That's insane.

GRR

_Jessica_;3922331; said:

I'm a little scared? Everything I've briefly read on keeping jellyfish indicates it's very expensive, time demanding, etc...and then I see this:
http://www.jellyfishart.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=NH764TIK&Redirected=Y

No cycling? 7 gallons...and you can keep up to 10 moon jellyfish in there after a while? What?! A quick google (because I really don't know much about jellyfish husbandry) tells me moon jellies get up to 20" wide... WTH are these people thinking?

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That's the understatement of the day!

Wow, that's terrible...one of the most difficult to keep animals in the world in a desktop bowl. Get a betta

if you want to keep jelly fish, go for it, but keeping it in one of those things is just.... wrong. and they don't look like aurita aurita too me? maybe they change through the different stages. if one were to attempt to keep one of those jellies, youd need a damn big tank

Man, thats terrible...

Im sure the poor jellies die before they reach the size in the picture.

The company will flop, due to the jellys dying in every tank repetively throughout the world.......

Thats sad though.

I work for Jellyfish Art and wanted to clear the air on some of the comments that came up on this thread.

- Although Aurelia aurita can reach a 20" diameter, you can control their growth by how much you feed them. They will not surpass their 2" bell diameter and outgrow the desktop tank as long as you don't feed them too much.
- Jellyfish are not any more difficult to keep than most salt water fish. They are resilient to high levels of ammonia, nitrite and nitrate and have a wide temperature range. The most difficult thing to replicate in a jellyfish tank is the constant feeding on plankton that jellyfish are used to. Corals are the same way. However, we ask our customers to feed twice a day where possible and we are working on the first automatic feeder for frozen plankton.

Not long ago people said it was impossible to keep corals in a tank. But thousands of hobbyists were willing to try something new, tweak their methods and share their insights with the community. Now virtually anyone who does their research can start and enjoy their own reef tank.

Jellyman;3924537; said:

I work for Jellyfish Art and wanted to clear the air on some of the comments that came up on this thread.

- Although Aurelia aurita can reach a 20" diameter, you can control their growth by how much you feed them. They will not surpass their 2" bell diameter and outgrow the desktop tank as long as you don't feed them too much.

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thats just a bio-orb tank. Your listing is quite misleading. I have a betta in one of them in my kitchen. looks to me you are selling this-
http://www.biorbfishtanks.com/8gallonbiorb-silver.aspx

for $120 more and just calling it something else. Not a particularly bad idea, you might get a sucker or two. Someone may even buy the algea cleaner you sell, that only works on flat sided tanks...



Another thing to keep in mind, is the reason most jellyfish tanks are round, is that they need strong currents. With those currents they can get caught in corners. All of the jellyfish tanks you are selling have corners, and honestly, I don't see a single air stone providing reef quality currents.

And the whole post you made...wow...just wow. Ammonia tolerant creatures that never grow if you dont feed them.

wow, just wow.