Posted by Owen Jones Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, environment, family, Fish, garden, home improvement, other, outdoors, Pets, pond, recreation, uncategorised, Water
Facts to Know of Jellyfish
One can find the jellyfish very commonly in the different seas and oceans all around the world with various biological names given to the different types of jellyfish. It is also found in fresh water especially when the water is deep. These types of jellyfish are rather colorless and quite small.
Posted by Luna Laney Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, aquariums, biology, diving, Fish, jellyfish, marine life, ocean, outdoors, science, scuba
Box Jellyfish – Some Facts
The color and shape of the jellyfish gives it the name of Blue bottle jellyfish. It is made of zooids and is not a single organism. The different zooids have various functions and together they act as on organism. A number of zooids form the tentacles for stinging and others form the feeding tentacles etcetera. It can be blue or even have a pink hue with a translucent body with a measurement of 3 cms to 15 cms. Its tentacles are about 15 cms up to even 10 meters in length.
Posted by Heather James Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, aquariums, biology, diving, Fish, jellyfish, marine life, ocean, outdoors, science, scuba
Jellyfish as artistic objects
Jellyfish are commonly called sea jellies or just jellies and are unique sea organisms which resemble the octopus. The similarity lies in the fact that they are both very attractive and both are equally poisonous if they are disturbed in any way. Jelly fish images are however different from octopus. Totally, there are about 1270 variants of the jelly fish species and these organisms can be found in various oceans all over the world. The adult jelly fish is known as Medusa.
Posted by Yari Lornes Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, aquariums, biology, diving, Fish, glass jellyfish paperweights, jelly fish images, jellyfish, marine life, ocean, outdoors, science, scuba
Keeping Jellyfish as Pets
Throughout the ages, people have been keeping pets in their homes and this could be in the form of dogs and even snakes as pets. Nowadays, we find many keeping a very decorative jelly fish in their homes as pets. The installation is easy as it does not occupy much space and they also look very appealing to the eye. There are various models of jellyfish tank homemade which you can avail of.
Posted by Jillian Johanson Date: Monday, June 27, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, aquariums, biology, diving, Fish, jellyfish, marine life, ocean, outdoors, science, scuba
White Jelly Fish – A threat
The scientific name for the upside down jelly fish is Cassiopeia xamachana and is often found in the waters of southern Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean sea and also in other waters of the tropics. It is mostly seen in shallow waters as also in mangrove swamps and lives on planktons as well as the food produced by the symbiotic algae that dwells within its body. In zoos, the upside down jelly fish is fed on marine invertebrates, and zoo planktons.
Posted by David Hollanders Date: Monday, June 27, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, aquariums, biology, diving, Fish, jellyfish, marine life, ocean, outdoors, science, scuba
What does the Jelly fish eat?
Most living organisms have a specific digestive organ which is its digestive system, but this cannot be said for the jelly fish which does not have any special organ for digestion. It has a gastro dermal lining present in the gastro vascular cavity and helps to digest the nutrients that it takes in. Jelly fish are usually called as blooms or swarms when found in groups and they usually feed on smaller organisms in the underwater and also on planktons. So if you are asking what does jellyfish eat, then it will suffice to say that they feed on smaller fish and also on other smaller organisms found in the water.
Posted by Heidi Nutaulsmith Date: Monday, June 27, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, aquariums, biology, diving, Fish, jellyfish, marine life, ocean, outdoors, science, scuba
Keeping Jellyfish as Pets
There are many facts to be known and many important steps that one needs to take in order to make jellyfish your pets or keep them in a tank. You need to follow certain important steps and procedures if you are planning on making jellyfish your livelihood. An important aspect of the procedure is jellyfish filtration, before you can consider making them your pet. They are a very unique kind of organism and need a habitat made of concentrated silica.
Posted by Amanda Williams Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011
Categories: animals
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Jellyfish facts – Keep as pets
On the western and eastern coasts of North America in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, is to be found the sea nettle jelly fish or Chrysaora. It generally has its body covered in white dots and reddish-brown stripes and seems saucer-shaped. Its four oral arms are present on the underside of the body and all along the outer edge it has tentacles a few feet long.
Posted by Richard Anderson Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011
Categories: animals
Tags: animals, aquariums, biology, diving, Fish, jellyfish, marine life, ocean, outdoors, science, scuba
Blue bottle jelly fish- an organism with a difference
The unique form of jelly fish called the blue bottle jelly fish is seen in the waters of the coastal Australia and New Zealand. This fish can be quite fatal to humans at times and goes by another name 'Portuguese-man-o-war' as it is similar in appearance to a Portuguese battle ship with its sail. As the name signifies, it is blue in color and the various parts of its body are capable of performing different functions.