In the meantime, Arvind has been measuring the flow velocities around the bell with piv, and hopefully he will have a draft of the paper soon so that we can submit it to the Journal of Experimental Biology. More pictures will be coming soon!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Tank redesign
The last of our June order of jellyfish has passed, but it seems to have been a natural death. We took the opportunity to redesign the tank with 2 chambers, a biowheel filter, and a protein skimmer. We haven't had any problems with algae blooms since! We also ordered 6 new upside down jellyfish from carolinabiological.com. They seem to be doing very well. Now the last problem to solve is feeding. We have been home growing our own brine shrimp for them a couple of times a week, but this process is rather time consuming. We are going to try to make a mass amount of them and freeze them. Hopefully this approach will work!
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Have you tried adding crabs?
ReplyDeleteHey Martin! We have some snails in there to clean the algae, but worry about crabs messing with the jellyfish. I have an arrow crab in another tank, but s/he is pretty aggressive. I think he tore up some of the sea squirts we got in.
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