Starting your aquarium normally takes about two months to “cycle”. This is a process where beneficial bacteria colonize a bio media such as Siporax. These beneficial bacteria break down or consume the waste from your jellyfish and keep the water healthy and clean. One way to speed up this process is to introduce these bacteria into the aquarium. Dr. Tim’s One and Only is an excellent product we have used to cycle the aquarium in just one week!
Before you Buy Blue Blubber Jellyfish, consider the requirements for keeping them. Blue Blubber Jellies are photosynthetic. They produce roughly half of their own nutritional needs from light. Much like corals in a reef tank, Blubber Jellyfish need high intensity lighting such as metal halide.
Blue Blubber Jellyfish are very active swimmers and are not dependent on water current to keep them suspended. They need a large tank with a lot of swim space. I have seen these jellyfish displayed in public aquariums in large upright tube tanks. I myself have kept them in a tank such as this, with little success.
Blubber jellyfish are unable to regenerate tissue like Moon Jellyfish . This means that if your Blubber Jellyfish gets damaged or torn it’s like an anemone, unlikely to recover and can foul the entire tank. We do not sell or recommend Keeping Blue Blubber Jellyfish.
