Brine Shrimp

I fed my little polyps some brine shrimp. (I gave them a lot). They are really happy and have stacks of dead brine shrimp around them. I soaked the brines in Selcon. The nutritional part of the brine shrimp is their yolk sac which is eaten in the first 24 hours of their life. Selcon just adds more nutrition. It's really cool watching them eat! Here's some pictures.

Hatchey

A few polyps from underneath.

Here they are making little stacks of food.

Here's the corner of the tank

Update

I guess you guys deserve an update.
So, the polyps have strobilated some and I got a few ephyra. Unfortunately, there is a problem with the screen. Everything is sticking to it. It seems like the spray bar isn't strong enough. I hope I can fix it before I lose some more jellies =(.

I tested the water and here are the results:
Ammonia : 0
Nitrate : 2.5
Nitrite : .5
pH : 8.5

Nitrates and Nitrites are dangerously high...
I'm cycling the tank to fix it.

Also, I've switched to live brine shrimp. I have my first culture starting now. Hopefully that feeds my polyps more.

And I've decided to move the polyps onto acrylic slides. I'm gonna scrape them off and lay down slides on the bottom. They will reattach to the slides and then I can hang them up.

Add a post if you have any ideas why my screen is sucking all the ephyra away. Or if you see a problem with the way I am going to reattach my polyps to slides.

Okay, Thanks!

And here's a cool video; you can learn something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagia_noctiluca

Polyps

I'm looking at a polyp through the microscope to see if he's alive.
Apparently he is because you can see his tentacles twitching. Sorry about the bad video quality. I might get a new microscope soon.

Polyps Came In

The polyps finally came in! I'm so excited. I've acclimated them. Here are some pictures.

The box!

Inside: A styrafoam box and a hand warmer.



Acclimating.

Still Acclimating...

They are buried in brine shrimp.

Put them in the tank. Most of that, I'm guessing, is brine shrimp.

Floating all around.

The big pink things are the polyps.

Pretty cool huh?