6_Jellyfish

Keeping jellyfish is a little bit different to keeping fish. They're soft bodied and very delicate and don't come into contact with hard surfaces and rocks and things like that. So we have to keep them in a special tank designed for them which is this tank behind me. This is called a kreisel, and a kreisel basically means carousel. What this does is it keeps the jellyfish moving around in suspension which is what they do in the wild they drift on the currents and not really bump into things and not have to turn corners too often. It also helps to keep the food in suspension as well. So we feed them on different types of plankton and this again sits in the water and drifts around with the jellyfish and this keeps them in the water much longer than they would in a standard fish tank. That would just drop to the bottom and gives them a much longer time to feed and do what they would normally do which is constantly eat.