Anyone keep jellies?

 I read an artical about a year ago that made it sound increadbly difficulct to keep jelly fish.  It stated things like hourly feeding and a very special filtration system.

 Adam I have always wanted to keep jelly fish. Could share some of your experance with me personally?

Well there are many jellies.  If you are thinking about the beautiful translucent floating jellies that glide through the water.... well they are tough.  The only thing difficult about them is you can't have pumps, and things that could them to run into stuff, or they just tear apart.

But Cassiopea just sit there on the bottom.  They are way hardy, and do great.  I cared for some before and they were just things you throw in the tank and forget about (well maybe not that easy).  Remember some of those crappy looking tanks at The Living Planet where the corals, and shark were, they have Cassiopea in them, and they do well without anyone caring for them nor feeding them.  Probably 3 inches across.  These jellies are easy to get and usually sell locally for like $7.  But, once again the problem with them is the water current blowing them into the rocks and corals.  I'm surprised other's aren't writing here with their experiences.... I'm certainly not the only person here who has kept them. 

I would like to give you more info, but I really don't know what else you want to know.

Adam

I collected some upside down jelly fish from florida. I had them inside a diy acrylic enclosure i built within my main tank. They lived happily for about 6 months and grew a little during that time as well. One fateful day (after I moved the enclosure from one end of the tank to the other) one side of the enclosure broke open and the jellies swam out. The pumps just ripped them apart and I saw my yellow tang feeding on the remains. They are mildly venomous and i was worried about the tang but it appeared to give him a "high" he darted from one end of the aquarium to the other shaking quite violently.....but I digress.

From my experience the upside jellies are very easy to keep as long as you have a very high light intensity like a MH (400wattX2 in my case). you dont even need to feed them as long as you give them enough light. I also noticed that they looked healthier (pulsed more energetically)under the 6500K Iwasakis than under the 20K bulbs.  In florida I observed them in very shallow (down to 6") lagoonal pools. They are interesting to watch as they constently pulse. Hope this helps

Asad

I believe I saw a bunch of the jellies at aquatica (the store on 42 n 1200 w).

Don't know how much.

Brad