I'd be interested in hearing about the professor's methods of keeping them.
(Were they ever published?) I became interested in FW jellyfish about a
year ago and in all of my searching and questions, no one was ever able to
tell me anything about keeping in them in captivity.
Thanks.
Travis Haas
>From: Bob and Betsy Culler <culler_at_tricon.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- freshwater jellyfish
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:41:53 -0500
>
>At 11:58 PM 1/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I would like to keep one of these creatures some day. I would have to get
>a
> >kriesel to keep them in though, so it'll probably be a while before I get
> >around to it.
>
>Actually I was able to keep some in a slightly modified aquarium a couple
>of years ago. As I recall, the medusae lived about 3 weeks or so. I got
>some info from a professor (can't recall his name offhand) on his method of
>keeping the polyps and producing medusae. Unfortunately, I have not gotten
>around to collecting any polyps, though.
>
>Ranger Bob
>culler_at_tricon.net
>
>What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating
>an endangered plant?
>
>
>
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