Hi as the title says I'm thinking about potentially getting some jellyfish (probably blue cannonball or moon jellyfish). And I've looked up about owning jellies but I've seen that you have to be really careful with the water, frequently test it etc. How difficult is this? What does testing the water involve? And how expensive is it all?
So a while back I made a web app to log my tank and jellies. I found it so helpful that I did the additional work to open it up. It ended up being more work than I thought but I really enjoyed it.
Anyways it tracks salinity, temp, pH, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and alkalinity, plus count, bell diameter and pulse rate if you want them. Everything charts over time with the safe range shaded behind the line, so a slow drift is obvious. It warns you when a reading goes out of range, and the ranges are jellyfish ranges rather than reef ones. You can turn off or on any of the parameters. It does have default ranges just based on what I use but you can changed them to whatever you want if you have different ideas or jellies. You can also log water changes, feedings, and general notes.
I should add you can choose your units for the parameters, °F or °C, ppt or specific gravity, dKH or meq/L, and so on.
It also has a ai export. It exports the readings, either copied to your clipboard or a .md file, with a prompt so you can just feed it to an ai and see what it thinks.
The only thing that bugs me is the graph looks way better and is more informative on a monitor, the phone screen is just to small, I don't know what to do about that.
This isn't a commercial product, I run a couple of servers for a different reason so I put it up on that, and this community is small enough that I don't think it will be an issue. I just really enjoy the jellies and want to make it easier for anyone else doing it.
The site is trackmyjellies.com
Cheers,
I'm getting moon jellies in September and plan to cycle my tank for 3 weeks before I buy my jelly fish. This is my first time attempting jellyfish, and I wanted to make sure that I have everything I need. I have been doing lots of research but worry I'm missing something. So far I have:
A 4 gallon round jellyfish tank
Jellyfish food (Brine shrimp eggs)
Instant ocean sea salt
API Saltwater test kit
Salinity tester
Jelly bio starter
Turkey baster
I know I still need a chiller, does anybody have any good recommendations for a 4 gallon chiller and thermometer, I'm also wondering what sponges I should use when it's time for replacement.
I know I'm probably missing lots of things so if anybody can notice and tell me anything I'm missing I'd really appreciate it