Monday, January 24, 2011

New System

Here's my new system. It's the most basic thing I could think of.

The light helps me see the polyps and ephyra better.

There is a jar with slow moving bubbles for the ephyra and a dish with a slow bubbler for the polyps

The ephyra jar with frozen rotifers in it. There are three epyhra in it.

The polyp dish has an acrylic slide that I scratched up with sandpaper so that they could attach better.
I'll be upgrading this with glass petri dishes and v-shaped beakers as soon as I order them.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Doing things right.

I've decided to keep my jellies the right way. For almost a year (or around six months) I've been failing at keeping the ephyra alive. It's because I'm trying to keep them my way. Clearly my way doesn't work. I'm going to have a chat with Jellyfishart.com so they can give me some tips (Thanks Alex!). I'm going find a method of raising jellies that works! So stay tuned. Soon, I'll have a system that works and perhaps some of you may try also.
And I'm losing my polyps for some reason.
There is a thick brown algae growing around them and they are disappearing.
I hope I can pick up this slack!