PRETTY COOOL
thanks. really a fine find
it seems like they discover something new every week
heres another article
Hey, Some people like lutefisk, and some like Balut! all a matter of taste. Me? I like traditional Slovenian blooded rice sausage. I always bring some rings of it back when i visit the old country, Cleveland. My favorite traditional butcher shop there makes it fresh every week.
I guess corals can suffer the same taste bud deformities.
Cool video ;D
Awesome! A fungia plate consuming a jelly fish. Those things will try to eat just about anything. I doubt the person who took that image stuck around to make sure it actually attempted to digest the jelly.
BTW, common names suck! A newbie might think that was a “mushroom coral” in hobby terms aka a corallimorph. The term “mushroom coral” is sometimes also used to refer to Sarcophyton which hobbyist often call Toadstool corals. Would be so much easier if we would just stick to one name. It’s almost as bad as people who use different screen names on every different forum and for there e-mail and I’m supposed to remember there real name to!
Shawn was talking to Ken and I about doing experiments in the future and publishing them on the site. I would love to raise some moon jellys and see if my fungia plates of different species would consume them and if a diet of jelly fish vs a diet of mysis shrimp would help the corals.(supporting the hypothesis that it is indeed using the jellyfish as a food and it is not just an incidental prey item that is not digested or utilized.) I could also try it with Duncan corals and other “LPS” corals to see of others could capture and consume jellyfish.
This could be fun! Now I just have to find the $ to start a moon jelly farm.
I have a couple hundred jelly fish you are welcome to in my brood stock system. They continue to grow in size and number.
Thanks Jason. Not really ready for them now. The gf would kill me if I tried to take any more animals in at this point. Perhaps when I condense some more tanks and I’m able to start raising some plankton food sources I’ll give it a shot, but just isn’t in the cards till at least after the New Year.
That and the type of jellies you have would not be ideal for the experiment. I would prefer to work with adult moon jellies rather then medusas which I believe could be considered plankton. Plankton consumption would not be as shocking of a research project as adult jellies.(that and I would rather not dissect my LPS to see if they consumed jellies, easier to just video moon jellies being captured and consumed)
Thanks for the offer though.
Well I’m continuing to look for ideas to remove these jellies. I did a little brainstorming this morning and I think I came up with a good solution, just not sure how practical it is.
The basic idea is to make a closed loop system with a siphon and throttled back return pump. I’d start off with 1/2" vinyl tubing that I’ll use to target siphon the jellies into a 5 gallon bucket housing a return pump. That pump will feed the water and jellies into a nuclear reactor that has been running low on coolant and approaching meltdown. As the uranium in the core reaches 20,000 degrees C, a delta-class, self-sustaining fire will melt everything around it and bore through the concrete infrastructure and about 10 meters into the Earth’s crust before enough heat can be absorbed to suspend the reaction. Assuming less than half of the jellyfish will survive the mutation process, it will take roughly 1/3rd of the United States Armed Forces to deal with the 50 foot tall behemoths. They should still be susceptible to either sonic weapons or extreme cold (though the use of thermo-nuclear weapons might be our only practical hope for survival at that point.) After a brief nuclear winter, water molecules will begin to condense again in our atmosphere and return to the Earth as rain water. This water will be collected into another 5 gallon bucket with a pre-measured amount of salt that has been converted into a DIY toilet bowl flapper surge device (which will of course return to the main tank.)
I suppose it would be possible just siphon the water through a fine mesh to collect the jellyfish and feed the siphoned water directly into the sump, bypassing the nuclear reactor to avoid any potential salinity variations that could send the fish into shock.
lol
I seriously doubt they will last for long. Especially if you are not feeding any planktonic foods in the system. It’s a phase and will go away.
It’s been 15 days since I first noticed them and made a post. Since they’re getting bigger, I assume they’re eating something. Would anyone be interested in seeing them if I brought a few to the meeting tomorrow?
Id like to take a look at them in person if you dont mind bringing a few…
I’d like to see them. That would be cool.
Ok, I’ll siphon some out tomorrow before the meeting.