Why get a lava-lamp when you can have a jellyfish tank? Florida company Jellyfish Art, who’s been selling jellyfish aquariums since 2011, has just concluded a successful kickstarter for a 3rd-generation, LED, tank. 330 USD will get you a tank that you set up yourself, with the jellyfish following in the mail the next day.
Some people were concerned if there’s enough space for the jellyfish. As harsh as it sounds, jellyfish don’t have a traditional central nervous system, and are probably not aware whether they’re in an ocean or in a fish tank.
“If they get close to a filtration intake in a regular fish tank, they would get sucked in and badly mangled,” the team explained to Huffington Post. “They’re made up of over 90% water so they’re very delicate. The water flow in the tank is designed to have a very gentle outflow spread out over a large surface area…. Our design is the first commercially available cylindrical design.”
More info: jellyfishart.com | facebook | kickstarter | twitter (h/t: huffpost)
See the special LED tank in action in the video below:
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I have to wonder, do the people that are so outraged by this also get outraged by someone having a plant on their desk at work? or at kids having sea monkeys? I have no interest in it, nor do I think it's a good idea, but the Jellyfish have no idea they are there. There is no brain, no central nervous system. It doesn't even have a head! It's basically a sophisticated plant, that thinks and acts and moves on impulse the same way a plant does. Yet if someone keeps a small pot plant inside, starved of sunlight and the ability to grow through a restricted pot, no one cares. The plant doesn't know it's there, it has no consciousness nor feeling, it just survives as a plant does.
it has been proven that plants indeed do have a certain level of consciousness and feelings and can even interact with each other and their environment. They do have a nervous system , just because they don't have a "central" nervous system does not mean jellyfish can't feel or think or make decisions based on their needs and environment. might wanna have a look here: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/8/1215 http://greenspanlab.ucsd.edu/documents/1-s2.0-S096098221300359X-main.pdf
Yeah, I agree with you. Plants can even "see" or sense what color you're wearing, feel the rain, and so much more.
Ah Adrian .. you know not of what you speak. Plants are VERY aware of their surroundings, nurture their young and when being attacked by predators actually send out a chemical SOS to predators of the predators that are attacking them! They even share food with their family growing around them and starve invaders. Watch the video, What Plants Talk About on PBS www.pbs.org/video/2338524462/ It will give you second thoughts.
And plants are far older than any animal species. If we believe in constant evolution that takes different avenues, then we have to recognize that some plants have had eons longer than we have to become more complex...and it just may be that we are too primitive and too short-lived to even recognize that they don't need a brain or a central nervous system to be conscious. I don't know that any of that is true, but it is certainly possible and human beings need to climb down off of our proud platform and realize we are not the apex of all creation. Life sprawls as much as it climbs. We're somewhere in that jumble, but to think we are on top or at the center is as foolish and short-sighted as thinking the universe revolves around the earth. Maybe our primitive brains aren't developed well enough to even consider the possibility that we're not as good as it gets.
Still doesn't really answer my initial question though.
Joseph is forced to agree
Actually it has neuron nets instead of a brain, but it does have nerves and they should live longer then 30 days! They don't just float around they actually swim, and will move to places that are favorable for them. As someone who has kept them, and bred them, they need much more space, and better filtration. Sure, this looks pretty, but they can feel, so your argument is invalid.
We tend to keep plants alive , if we can, and enjoy their growth. Aurelia will soon outgrow a tank this size - I know as the organisation I work for has reared some.
How do you know they don't? Have you ever been a jellyfish? Humans should have more respect towards other animals. You probably eat animals, so what should I expect I guess.
I volunteer a tonne of my time to animal rescue and therapy animals, I have a lot more respect for animals than most. Maybe jam your assumptions in your respect hole.
... and I shall call it "Squishy" ...
And it will be my squishy
we JUST watched that movie Finding Nemo did you know that they are making a Finding Dory
you can get a tank with fake jellyfish on amazon that look real enough, cruelty free
and it also comes with colored lights
ohhhh and you dont have to feed them or anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. We are talking about a jellyfish, they are brainless plant like organisms lacking a central nervous system. Keeping them in a tank is about as cruel as mowing your lawn.
Guess we can’t have actual fish tanks or ant farms or horses or anything anymore even tho people actually take care of them and actually have love for them.
I have to wonder, do the people that are so outraged by this also get outraged by someone having a plant on their desk at work? or at kids having sea monkeys? I have no interest in it, nor do I think it's a good idea, but the Jellyfish have no idea they are there. There is no brain, no central nervous system. It doesn't even have a head! It's basically a sophisticated plant, that thinks and acts and moves on impulse the same way a plant does. Yet if someone keeps a small pot plant inside, starved of sunlight and the ability to grow through a restricted pot, no one cares. The plant doesn't know it's there, it has no consciousness nor feeling, it just survives as a plant does.
it has been proven that plants indeed do have a certain level of consciousness and feelings and can even interact with each other and their environment. They do have a nervous system , just because they don't have a "central" nervous system does not mean jellyfish can't feel or think or make decisions based on their needs and environment. might wanna have a look here: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/8/1215 http://greenspanlab.ucsd.edu/documents/1-s2.0-S096098221300359X-main.pdf
Yeah, I agree with you. Plants can even "see" or sense what color you're wearing, feel the rain, and so much more.
Ah Adrian .. you know not of what you speak. Plants are VERY aware of their surroundings, nurture their young and when being attacked by predators actually send out a chemical SOS to predators of the predators that are attacking them! They even share food with their family growing around them and starve invaders. Watch the video, What Plants Talk About on PBS www.pbs.org/video/2338524462/ It will give you second thoughts.
And plants are far older than any animal species. If we believe in constant evolution that takes different avenues, then we have to recognize that some plants have had eons longer than we have to become more complex...and it just may be that we are too primitive and too short-lived to even recognize that they don't need a brain or a central nervous system to be conscious. I don't know that any of that is true, but it is certainly possible and human beings need to climb down off of our proud platform and realize we are not the apex of all creation. Life sprawls as much as it climbs. We're somewhere in that jumble, but to think we are on top or at the center is as foolish and short-sighted as thinking the universe revolves around the earth. Maybe our primitive brains aren't developed well enough to even consider the possibility that we're not as good as it gets.
Still doesn't really answer my initial question though.
Joseph is forced to agree
Actually it has neuron nets instead of a brain, but it does have nerves and they should live longer then 30 days! They don't just float around they actually swim, and will move to places that are favorable for them. As someone who has kept them, and bred them, they need much more space, and better filtration. Sure, this looks pretty, but they can feel, so your argument is invalid.
We tend to keep plants alive , if we can, and enjoy their growth. Aurelia will soon outgrow a tank this size - I know as the organisation I work for has reared some.
How do you know they don't? Have you ever been a jellyfish? Humans should have more respect towards other animals. You probably eat animals, so what should I expect I guess.
I volunteer a tonne of my time to animal rescue and therapy animals, I have a lot more respect for animals than most. Maybe jam your assumptions in your respect hole.
... and I shall call it "Squishy" ...
And it will be my squishy
we JUST watched that movie Finding Nemo did you know that they are making a Finding Dory
you can get a tank with fake jellyfish on amazon that look real enough, cruelty free
and it also comes with colored lights
ohhhh and you dont have to feed them or anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. We are talking about a jellyfish, they are brainless plant like organisms lacking a central nervous system. Keeping them in a tank is about as cruel as mowing your lawn.
Guess we can’t have actual fish tanks or ant farms or horses or anything anymore even tho people actually take care of them and actually have love for them.